dull person
Example Sentences
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She fears that recovery will be boring: not merely that it will be a tedious experience to undergo, but that being in recovery will transform her into a dull person.
From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2018
His Twitter feed presents a perfectly dull person with perfectly banal thoughts.
From Salon • May 24, 2012
“It is generally conceded,” Louis Lépine noted, “that even a dull person would realize the impossibility of selling such a famous work.”
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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“But I’d be a dull person if I wrote about nothing but being poor and hungry, wouldn’t I?”
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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Most people considered him rather a dull person, but among cats he was conceded to have a colossal mind.
From The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various