dullness
Example Sentences
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The manufacturing hub, which anchors the region that is home to auto giant Toyota, is Japan’s fourth most-populous city and, according to a decade-old newspaper poll that still stings here, number one in dullness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025
Excessive coloring of the hair to lighten the color can cause damage to the hair shaft leading to dullness, increased hair fragility, and breakage.
From National Geographic • Aug. 22, 2023
In the role of the younger Bucky, Alexandre Gonin finds a sense of awkward seriousness that never tips over into dullness.
From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2023
But his approach to his books was shaped in part by his Jesuit background, by the depth of his learning and the dullness of how he learned it.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2022
He was a young man, a Mr. Stone by name, with what Dr. Finch called the greatest talent for dullness he had ever seen in a man on the near side of fifty.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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