dry-as-dust
adjective
dull and boring.
dryasdust
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a variation of
dry-as-dust.
Example Sentences
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The bill secured the support of the "dryasdust" Lord Astor; the Government also gave its support with a number of reservations.
From Time Magazine Archive
The annalist, be he dryasdust or gossip, is, in legal phrase, "the devil" of the prose artist, whose work makes almost as great a demand on the imaginative faculty as that of the poet.
From Thomas Carlyle by John Nichol
The genuineness of this winning little letter could never be doubted except by the most dryasdust of pedants.
From The Books of the New Testament by Leighton Pullan
"One of the books that turn botany from a dryasdust into a fascinating study."
From Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage
He fancied himself with this girl for his wife, and the delight of going back from the dull dryasdust labours of his city life to a home in which she would bid him welcome.
From Fenton's Quest by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
