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
Partly on all these changes was Mr. Cranmer meditating as they drove back to Lower House in the dulness of an autumn afternoon.
From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds
And the addition about Carlyle or Coleridge—or Coleridge!—is just the gratuitous insolence of one-eyed dulness.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
No, not for all the unknown possibilities of change, not though Claversham life should stretch its dulness unbroken through a century.
From The New Rector by Stanley John Weyman
Where, however, the dulness on percussion is accompanied by high fever, and the long-drawn inspiration is replaced by rapid respiratory movements, the diagnosis of pneumonic complication is justified.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
