prosiness
- a word derived from prosy.
Example Sentences
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Wordsworth was condemned for his prosiness, Whitman for his barbaric yawp, Browning for his obscurity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Too prosy for some tastes, he insists that poems must incorporate the prosiness of life; poetry must be as important as prose.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes this casual prosiness is unintentionally comic, as when he makes a minor character think of Karen as The loveliest biological achievement That his prehensile eyes had yet approved.
From Time Magazine Archive
His creased face, with its oddly forced smile, cannot displace the memory of Kennedy's youthful radiance, and his unctuous prosiness cannot match Kennedy's eloquence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nothing around him but stupid, vulgar prosiness, foolish moral annihilation.
From The Grip of Desire by France, Hector
