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lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging
- She spoke with scorn of the other inhabitants of the apartment-house, who were "so prosaic, so conventional..."Chapter 5 (65% in)
prosaic = lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging
(editor's note: scorn is a synonym for contempt or disrespect)
(editor's note: scorn is a synonym for contempt or disrespect)
- But Martin, being Martin, walked prosaically up and down his laboratory, snarling.Chapter 28 (14% in)
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