prosaical
- a variation of prosaic.
Example Sentences
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Lucid, but ambiguous; pathetic, but amusing; poetical, but comprehensive; prosaical, but full of emphasis.
From Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by Cooper, James Fenimore
Next day, sadness and sentiment gave way, for a while at least, to more prosaical feelings.
From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by Dawson, William Francis
They die, however, victorious; and the two royal and noble scoundrels, by a piece of prosaical justice better than poetical, are despatched like common malefactors, with a halter.
From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 by Dante Alighieri
The whole district is as flat as a billiard table, and as prosaical in its well-to-do fertility as can be imagined.
From The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes by Various
This passage illustrates also the difference between the highly- developed imagination of the one and the stodgy prosaical temperament of the other.
From The Art of the Story-Teller by Shedlock, Marie L.
