commonplaceness
Example Sentences
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The American mind has been accused of ignorance, superficiality, levity, commonplaceness, and dozens of other defects, but "dulness" is not one of them.
From The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures by Perry, Bliss
"I think—you made a mistake," he began it with commonplaceness, but his gesture softened the words.
From The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode by Vorst, Marie Van
Diamond threw into his manner a certain determined commonplaceness, as though to quench any tendency to excitement or exaltation which might show itself in the preacher.
From A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
Yet the fate that grudged him prizes in his lifetime contrived afterwards to spread a veneer of commonplaceness over the success which it could not prevent.
From Euripedes and His Age by Murray, Gilbert
The Paston Letters are simply genuine family correspondence—of a genuineness all the more certain because of their commonplaceness.
From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by Saintsbury, George
