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prosaic
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Definition:lacking poetic beauty; dull
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[Robert Louis Stevenson] made due, no matter what the circumstances. Something as prosaic as the convenient presence of a mailbox or telegraph seemed an unlikely justification for building his hearth.
J. Maarten Troost. Headhunters on My Doorstep, p.254 (2013)
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there was a long, lazy being who had been fool enough to suppose that the cleverest woman in Europe would settle down to the prosaic bonds of English matrimony.
Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
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‘We are the dead,’ he said.
‘We’re not dead yet,’ said Julia prosaically.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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"How did her father drown?"
"In the most prosaic way possible. He fell out of a rowing boat right below his cabin. [...]"
Stieg Larsson. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Reg Keeland translation), p.255 (2009)
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There he sat, with his tweed suit and his American accent, in the corner of a prosaic railway-carriage,
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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