All 4 Uses of
monotonous
in
Babbitt
- When the other sages of the Pullman smoking-compartment had left them to themselves, Babbitt's voice did not drop into the playful and otherwise offensive tone in which one addresses children but continued its overwhelming and monotonous rumble, and Ted tried to imitate it in his strident tenor: "Gee, dad, you certainly did show up that poor boot when he got flip about the League of Nations!"†
Chpt 19
- But he went on, in a monotonous, terrified insane mumble.†
Chpt 22
- It was a sensation which broke the monotony of life.†
Chpt 24 *
- Babbitt could hear the soldiers' monotonous orders: "Keep moving—move on, 'bo—keep your feet warm!"†
Chpt 27
Definition:
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(monotonous) lacking in variety -- typically boring