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prosaic

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Yet for all his ambitious foreign-policy goals, Abe was undone by far more prosaic domestic concerns.

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The prosaic poetry of what passes for workaday life, all around, even in places and among people accustomed to danger.

Don’t miss out on a possible sale for something as prosaic as a needlessly complicated sign-up process.

Prosaic cow-punching was relegated to the rear and they looked eagerly forward to their several missions.

But it is startling indeed how suddenly sometimes the earth takes on a new wonderfulness, and Saint Prosaic a new halo.

Prosaic, unimaged, without poetry or myth, they dully persisted until pedlars appeared with Hellenic legends and wares.

Prosaic as these journeys may seem, they are nevertheless the inspiration of my hopes, the feeders of my visions.

Prosaic enough, however, was what she went on to tell him of her struggle for life by day and for learning by night.

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On this page you'll find 110 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to prosaic, such as: banal, drab, everyday, humdrum, mundane, and workaday.

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

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