prosy
adjective
of the nature of or resembling prose.
prosily
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a word derived from
prosy.
Example Sentences
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Mother goes shopping as usual, answers the phone and the door, chats prosily with teacher when she comes to see if Richard, who has stayed home "sick" from school, is feeling any better.
From Time Magazine Archive
Where and is used instead of but, the incongruity savours of epigram: "He always talks truthfully and prosily."
From How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition by Edwin Abbott Abbott
Then at least I was well enough wakened, but still those old Marlen bells rung on, not ringing for joy, but properly, prosily, steadily, merrily ringing “for church.”
From Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Alexander William Kinglake
Quite prosily and in apparently perfect health he was standing close to the railing of the piazza.
From The White Linen Nurse by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Suddenly, while the doctor was giving some experience of practice on the Flanders front, rather prosily, he sprang to his feet with a cry.
From The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
