dullness

Example Sentences

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It feels like a petty grievance—yet another example of greatness being conflated with dullness.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Her works achieve the difficult feat of synthesizing a coma-inducing dullness with piercingly shrill extended diatribes to create reverse masterpieces worthy of the most risible North Korean propaganda.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2024

Excessive coloring of the hair to lighten the color can cause damage to the hair shaft leading to dullness, increased hair fragility, and breakage.

From National Geographic • Aug. 22, 2023

In the role of the younger Bucky, Alexandre Gonin finds a sense of awkward seriousness that never tips over into dullness.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2023

Some two or three days later I noticed a change in Kuti: his eyes lost their dullness and the whimpering that had been so harrowing to listen to lessened and stopped.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya