banal
Example Sentences
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Yes, he was 88, but the Czech-born, British playwright, the true 20th century heir to Oscar Wilde, would never have arranged things so banally.
From Los Angeles Times
Even so, the kaleidoscope of tales and vignettes, and the blurring of the banal with the macabre, produces a dusky, dreamlike atmosphere that envelopes one’s thoughts like a fine mist.
It doesn’t help that Ms. Doucet’s prose, replete with stock expressions, is tiresomely banal.
Yet in a manner almost impossible to describe, he stood above or outside his banal and dull-witted persona.
From Salon
There seemed to be something basic or banal about whiling away hours in the gym.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
