All 3 Uses of
nondescript
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Then they trot you out some kind of a nondescript, wouldn't know what to call her.†
Chpt 13 *
- BLOOM: (Pigeonbreasted, bottleshouldered, padded, in nondescript juvenile grey and black striped suit, too small for him, white tennis shoes, bordered stockings with turnover tops and a red schoolcap with badge) I was in my teens, a growing boy.†
Chpt 15
- A few moments later saw our two noctambules safely seated in a discreet corner only to be greeted by stares from the decidedly miscellaneous collection of waifs and strays and other nondescript specimens of the genus homo already there engaged in eating and drinking diversified by conversation for whom they seemingly formed an object of marked curiosity.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(nondescript) without distinct or individual characteristics -- perhaps dull and uninteresting