Thesaurus / lusterless
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Their fierce depths were dull and lusterless as they rolled vaguely around.
THE TWINS OF SUFFERING CREEKRIDGWELL CULLUM
No matter what the size, or how perfect the shape, it is nothing, if dead and lusterless.
A TEXT-BOOK OF PRECIOUS STONES FOR JEWELERS AND THE GEM-LOVING PUBLICFRANK BERTRAM WADE
Under their heavy lids his sightless eyeballs, whitely opaque and lusterless, turned mutely toward the sound of the horse hoofs.
THE VALIANTS OF VIRGINIAHALLIE ERMINIE RIVES
The entire skull and face were covered with small, closely overlapping scales of lusterless gray.
ZEHRU OF XOLLARHAL K. WELLS
You will get the jaded face, and the dull, lusterless eyes, and the untidy hair with the dye showing on it.
EVERGREENSJEROME K. JEROME
Digestion, or rather assimilation, is impossible; and pasty face and lusterless eyes become the rule.
THE EASIEST WAY IN HOUSEKEEPING AND COOKINGHELEN CAMPBELL
One of Pierrot's hands was done up in a sling, his face was thin and pale, and his dark eyes were sunken and lusterless.
PHILIP STEELE OF THE ROYAL NORTHWEST MOUNTED POLICEJAMES OLIVER CURWOOD
The engineer went over the big, clean, lusterless mechanism before it left the inspection-pit at the roundhouse.
THE RAILROAD PROBLEMEDWARD HUNGERFORD
Her lusterless eyes were fired by the only thing that could fire them: her bitter jealousy.
HIDDEN GOLDWILDER ANTHONY
He could see that Karyl's eyes also were weary and lusterless.
THE LIGHTED MATCHCHARLES NEVILLE BUCK
WORDS RELATED TO LUSTERLESS
- actual
- banal
- blah
- boring
- clean
- colorless
- common
- commonplace
- dead
- diddly
- drab
- dry
- dull
- everyday
- factual
- flat
- garden-variety
- hackneyed
- ho-hum
- humdrum
- irksome
- lackluster
- lifeless
- literal
- lowly
- lusterless
- monotonous
- mundane
- nothing
- nowhere
- ordinary
- pabulum
- pedestrian
- platitudinous
- plebeian
- practicable
- practical
- prose
- prosy
- routine
- square
- stale
- tame
- tedious
- trite
- uneventful
- unexceptional
- uninspiring
- vanilla
- vapid
- workaday
- yawn
- zero
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