prosy

1 He himself is so unpretentious, so warm-hearted, so single-minded, and so manly that he deserves a more sympathetic and less vain helpmeet than this female doctor, with her too prosy platitudes and her chill philosophies.

2 For then an inclined plane of unfortunate infants would be handed over to the prosiest and worst of all the teachers with good intentions, whom nobody older would endure.

3 Things of that sort did not, Cartaret knew, occur in these prosy days.

4 Author of The Minstrel, a long, prosy poem in Spenserian stanza, and a prose Essay on Truth.

5 Farming for dividends is a prosy business; but farming with a discount may have a world of sentiment in it.

6 Even if this story were fiction, instead of prosy fact, you would foresee just what was bound to happen.

7 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.

8 It is an old, old tale, yet in the telling of it nature alone is not prosy.

9 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.

10 The club no doubt would turn out to be as prosy an affair as all the other regulation charitable organizations in Sanford.

11 But I shall only weary you if I go on in this prosy way! so thanking you again most heartily for your grand contribution, believe me to remain,—Yours very sincerely, R. Norman Shaw.

12 I feel most qualified to suggest plays, so perhaps these can be taken as mix and match with other, prosier, suggestions.

13 Father and Gerald must have finished that prosy discussion by now.

14 These," she says, "consist of the frothy, the prosy, the pious, or the pedantic.

15 Ben Sollee made one of Mr. Simon’s more prosy songs, “Wartime Prayers,” a solo for voice and cello that captured its hope and mourning.

16 "They get settled down and prosy, or else—well, dissipated."

17 There seemed no reason why they should come, and their interview, considering the circumstances under which he had seen them last was of a very prosy nature.

18 It was only when he touched on wider matters, especially on politics, that he grew unbearably tedious and prosy.

19 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.

20 Might not the contents of the Journals, in like sort, be rendered somewhat less prosy than they sometimes are by being versified?

1 冗长

long lengthy redundant windy diffuse verbose wordy long-winded preachy prolix periphrastic diffusion verbalism verbalize as long as your arm weak tedious copious gassy sesquipedalian tedium circumlocution by the yard mortal everlasting interminable ponderous garrulous diffusive mouth-filling longsome redundancy verbiage prolixity pleonasm

2 无想像力的

literal uninspired prosaic

3 沉闷

dead-and-alive slow dead boring deadly dull hollow dismal gloomy dreary stuffy ponderous leaden doleful languor overcloud

4 单调

even flat quiet vegetable plain dull pedestrian tame bald prose commonplace drab monotonous prosaic humdrum plodding toneless unrelieved singsong unvaried subfusc flatly tonelessly prosily monotony monotone sameness dullness blankness pedestrianism inanimation prosiness dead-alive same waste mechanic blah bleak dreary stodgy leaden unexciting unglamorous one-note monotonic samey ticky-tacky saltless banausic heavy vegetably wasteland flatness platitude vapidity creep monotonize mechanize

5 平凡

run-of-mill even small common usual everyday ordinary pedestrian literal trivial mediocre prose mundane commonplace barren indifferent lowly uneventful uninspired banal run-of-the-mill prosaic matter-of-fact featureless humdrum second-rate homespun quotidian bread-and-butter C undistinguished toneless workaday characterless bathetic singsong platitudinous bromidic noteless common-or-garden mundanely banally trivialism mediocrity platitude banality triviality mundanity commonness homeliness bathos stodginess prosiness trivialize ten a penny two a penny old hat stock cheap thick homemade received trite middling hackneyed ornery twopenny twice-told Pedestrianism

6 啰嗦的

lengthy repetitious rigmarole prolix yakky

7 平淡

diddly-bop obvious routine plain fade tame colorless flatly

8 散文体

pedestrian prosaic prose prosiness prosaism

9 唆

lengthy prolix circumlocutory circumlocution

10 平淡的

diddly-bop obvious routine plain fade tame colorless

11 散文体的

pedestrian prosaic

12 散文

prosaic prose

13 散文的

prosaic

14 乏味

flat static dull blah sterile prose dreadful watery dreary innocuous tasteless uninteresting prosaic featureless vapid humdrum flavorless unexciting draggy saltless sauceless savorless flatly tastelessly flatness stuffiness wateriness prosiness slow heavy dead sick sad boring deadly pedestrian mundane bland tacky monotonous uninspired colourless ponderous pallid blandly dully monotonously prosaically ponderously unimaginatively boredom monotony dullness blandness ponderousness routine tame drab stuffy unsavory unsavoury workaday livelong jejune platitude insipidity noplaceville icky-poo unshoed dead-alive stupid fade bare literal pathetic barren soggy sickly boneless icky moldy matter-of-fact insipid unimaginative stodgy naff ho-hum unglamorous humorless washy wearisome unpoetic pukey drack milk-and-water vapidity milk and water

15 单调乏味的

heavy monotonous grey

16 平凡的

run-of-mill even small common usual everyday ordinary pedestrian literal trivial mediocre prose mundane commonplace barren indifferent lowly uneventful uninspired banal run-of-the-mill prosaic matter-of-fact featureless humdrum second-rate homespun quotidian bread-and-butter C undistinguished toneless workaday characterless bathetic singsong platitudinous bromidic noteless common-or-garden ten a penny two a penny old hat stock cheap thick homemade received trite middling hackneyed ornery twopenny twice-told

17 沉闷的

draggy dead flat dull grim dismal dreary monotonous leaden flat-footed cheerless dreich dead-and-alive slow boring deadly hollow gloomy stuffy ponderous doleful

18 平淡无奇的

suburban literal trite copy-book obvious pedestrian mundane Grey prosaic workaday

19 枯燥无味的

dry lean blah dusty sterile arid chippy workaday jejune arenaceous dryasdust

20 缺乏想像力的

institutional pedestrian uninspired unimaginative flat-footed paint-by-number

21 单调乏味

heavy monotonous grey monotony

22 乏味的

flat static dull blah sterile prose dreadful watery dreary innocuous tasteless uninteresting prosaic featureless vapid humdrum flavorless unexciting draggy saltless sauceless savorless slow heavy dead sick sad boring deadly pedestrian mundane bland tacky monotonous uninspired colourless ponderous pallid routine tame drab stuffy unsavory unsavoury workaday livelong jejune noplaceville icky-poo unshoed dead-alive stupid fade bare literal pathetic barren soggy sickly boneless icky moldy matter-of-fact insipid unimaginative stodgy naff ho-hum unglamorous humorless washy wearisome unpoetic pukey drack milk-and-water

23 枯燥无味

dry lean blah dusty sterile arid chippy workaday jejune arenaceous dryasdust drily

24 唆的

lengthy prolix circumlocutory

25 冗长的

long lengthy redundant windy diffuse verbose wordy long-winded preachy prolix periphrastic as long as your arm weak tedious copious gassy sesquipedalian mortal everlasting interminable ponderous garrulous diffusive mouth-filling longsome

26 平淡无味

prose

27 单调的

even flat quiet vegetable plain dull pedestrian tame bald prose commonplace drab monotonous prosaic humdrum plodding toneless unrelieved singsong unvaried subfusc dead-alive same waste mechanic blah bleak dreary monotone stodgy leaden unexciting unglamorous monotonic samey ticky-tacky saltless banausic heavy

28 啰嗦

lengthy repetitious rigmarole prolix yakky prolixity naffing