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
“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
“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
I always find a peculiar interest in the solemn enunciation of a platitude by a dull person who does not naturally aim at effect.
From Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College by Benson, Arthur Christopher
