dull
adjective
not sharp; blunt.
dulness
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a word derived from
dull.
Example Sentences
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I must watch this ghastly countenance—these blue, still lips forbidden to unclose—these eyes now shut, now opening, now wandering through the room, now fixing on me, and ever glazed with the dulness of horror.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
To all inquiries the latter replied as before, displaying a kind of childish simplicity, and awkward dulness.
From Curiosities of Human Nature by Anonymous
He sent him to Edinburgh University with his brother to study medicine, but Darwin found the dulness of the lectures intolerable, and the sight of blood sickened him, as it did his father.
From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Edward Clodd
Gone was the apathy, gone were the dulness of soul and the greyness of outlook with which Sophia had risen from her bed.
From Sophia A Romance by Stanley John Weyman
Unfortunately her sister's temper and Mr. Northey's dulness gave sweet reasonableness small place.
From Sophia A Romance by Stanley John Weyman
