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  • Or someone more prosaic like Peggy Lee?  (source)
    prosaic = lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging
  • It isn't just prosaic factors like the weather that influence behavior.  (source)
    prosaic = lacking anything unusual or interesting
  • In the most prosaic way possible.  (source)
    prosaic = lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging
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  • The blotch, which until then she had regarded as the most prosaic of skin blemishes, had become an obsession.  (source)
    prosaic = lacking anything unusual or interesting
  • 'We're not dead yet,' said Julia prosaically.  (source)
    prosaically = in a matter-of-fact manner (a bland manner -- as though unconcerned)
  • The absence of so prosaic a commodity as grapefruit juice had suddenly made real to him, for the first time, what it was that would happen to the city of New York if anything happened to the Taggart Bridge.  (source)
    prosaic = lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging
  • "—Come on," she added prosaically to the other two.  (source)
    prosaically = in a matter-of-fact manner (lacking anything unusual)
  • Francie thought her diary would be like that, but excepting for some romantic observations on Harold Clarence, actor, the entries were prosaic.  (source)
    prosaic = lacking anything unusual or interesting
  • I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else.  (source)
    prosaically = lacking anything unusual
  • He never left the cinema very quickly. It always took him a moment or two to return to the prosaic reality of everyday life.  (source)
    prosaic = lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging
  • "Well, they will do it," said Japp prosaically.  (source)
    prosaically = in a matter-of-fact manner (lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging)
  • That sounded so prosaic; but to my surprise I found it true.  (source)
    prosaic = lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging
  • Sassburger telephoned for ice, and the bell-boy who brought it said, prosaically and unprompted, "Highball glasses or cocktail?"  (source)
    prosaically = in a matter-of-fact manner (lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging)
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