monotonously

Example Sentences

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Who cares what soul is inside each shell if they’re all monotonously slack-faced?

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Thanks in large part to a typically overworked performance by Mr. White, who is monotonously soulful and tortured, Springsteen comes across as an anti-icon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

“Joker” is, finally, so monotonously grandiose and full of its own pretensions that it winds up feeling puny and predictable.

From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2019

The boys acquit themselves worse — Gregson’s “Wildly Into the Dark” and Atticus’s “Love Her Wild” are loaded with sensitive-cowboy-mystic peacocking, monotonously mansplaining love to their stardust-kissed muses.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2017

After church I go with the Smeaths through the vacant Sunday streets to watch the trains shunting monotonously back and forth along their tracks, on the gray plain beside the flat lake.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood