prosy
Americanadjective
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of the nature of or resembling prose.
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prosaic; dull, tedious, wearisome, or commonplace.
adjective
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of the nature of or similar to prose
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dull, tedious, or long-winded
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For an artist, she is unusual in describing herself as a writer as much as a painter—her short stories and prosy poems frequently appear in her catalogues.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 12, 2017
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” lost most of its magic in the prosy outline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2016
After the prosy music of Mr. Williams’s lines, Ms. Cruz’s poems are an ecstatic overdose of language and emotion.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2012
I have always preferred early Eliot – I still think Prufrock the greatest of the poems – and this preachy, prosy, High Church sentiment has never been to my taste.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 7, 2011
There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
I feel most qualified to suggest plays, so perhaps these can be taken as mix and match with other, prosier, suggestions.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2014
The Stock Exchange was strongly represented, Jerusalem was strongly represented, the bores of the prosier London clubs were strongly represented.
From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles
It was her first experience in shadows cast before, and it came to her with a little shock that no two are ever one in the prosier sense of the theory.
From The Danger Mark by Wenzell, A. B.
The same dead level of dry personal detail speaks through each chapter; or if occasional relief is afforded, it is "in liquid lines mellifluously bland," and prosier than all the rest.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 by Various
In all my life I never met a prosier man.
From Further Foolishness by Leacock, Stephen
His prosiest lines are often lifted into verse by some piece of sly wit or canny wisdom, and at its best his poetry is as strong and simple as his Vermont landscape.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next to him is Sir H. Selwin-Ibbetson, Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, and whom I have heard genially described as "one of the prosiest speakers in the House."
From Faces and Places by Lucy, Henry W. (Henry William), Sir
She's married since,—a parson's wife: 'Twas better for her that we should part,— Better the soberest, prosiest life Than a blasted home and a broken heart.
From The Dog's Book of Verse by Various
After Milton came the age which, of all others, is the prosiest in our history.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington
For then an inclined plane of unfortunate infants would be handed over to the prosiest and worst of all the teachers with good intentions, whom nobody older would endure.
From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)
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