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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In 1996, Blinn had designed, printed, and hand-bound seventy-five copies of “Ric’s Progress,” Hall’s long, prosy poem about a bad marriage.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 31, 2018
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” lost most of its magic in the prosy outline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2016
Mr. Turner’s poems can be too prosy, but we need his bracing “bullet-borne language” as he tries to reconcile the chaos of Iraq with the demands of the poetic line.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2010
Nothing seems unnecessary in this economical, finely-judged poem, the shortness of the lines being what in too many poems it is not: a guarantee against a prosy sound.
From The Guardian ● May 24, 2010
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
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 A. B. Wenzell
In all my life I never met a prosier man.
From Further Foolishness by Stephen Leacock
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
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 Charles Dickens
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 Sir Henry W. (Henry William) Lucy
Of three dull nicknames, stuck like burrs on the mantles of Dorking's prophets, the dullest and prosiest has stuck to the richest.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson
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
His rescue from the island had turned out to be one of the prosiest matters imaginable.
From The Everlasting Arms by Joseph Hocking
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