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dully

adverb as in stupidly

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While it was mild fun exploring areas to find the puzzle pieces, repeated activities started to dull any sense of adventure, and it started to feel, once again, like a bullet point off an open-world checklist.

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Plastic-wrapped cookies and cookies sent in tins seemed to absorb their powder, leaving them a bit dull.

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If he has ever written a bad, dull or disappointing book, I haven’t seen it.

First, was the Wild Huckleberry 8-Acid Polishing Peel which was used to help “gently polish away dull, dead skin.”

Gravity is transformed from the constraint that holds us dully to Earth into the power that lets us fly.

“Toward the end, you didn't know it was bodies anymore,” Helen says dully.

Garnache opened his eyes and stared a second dully at the disturber of his feigned slumbers.

Presently a pair of bloodshot eyes were opened and looked dully round the room.

They tried to make as little noise as possible, but though they walked on tiptoe, the sound echoed back to them dully.

Dully, his intellect numbed as his body was numbed, he went back to his tasks,—tasks that were seemingly endless.

Dully, hazily, he stared at it with his red eyes, with the faint feeling of a duty neglected.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dully, such as: densely, dimly, lethargically, listlessly, obtusely, and slowly.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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