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
This poetic note is sounded halfway through the first act of the generally prosy new musical “Far From Heaven,” which opened on Sunday night at Playwrights Horizons.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2013
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
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
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
In all my life I never met a prosier man.
From Further Foolishness by Stephen Leacock
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
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 John Addington Symonds
This prince of baths would, we verily believe, change the dullest clodhopper to a wit for a time, and convert the prosiest old antiquarian into a poet.
From Turkish and Other Baths A Guide to Good Health and Longevity by Gordon Stables
But once there, he was like a calm and busy workman, and had as little self consciousness of the thing–of the gallantry and the heroism–as the prosiest blacksmith.
From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
I know a married couple who are now the happiest, prosiest, most attached old pair in the world, who went through no end of storms during their first eventful year.
From A Young Mutineer by L. T. Meade
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