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prosaic

lacking poetic beauty; dull and unimaginative

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Six example sentences with prosaic, each labelled with its topic.

  • The guidebook promised romance, but the harbor turned out to be prosaic: cranes, gravel barges, and a closed cafe.

    Travel

  • The reason for the crash was prosaic: someone unplugged the backup drive to charge a phone overnight.

    Technology

  • Behind the grand theory sits a prosaic truth: most households decide by copying whatever their neighbors did last year.

    Economics

  • The new library is prosaic, a beige box with punched windows that could pass for a tax office.

    Architecture

  • Critics found the sequel prosaic, its sentences plain and flat where the first novel had sung.

    Literature

  • Wittgenstein's examples are deliberately prosaic, all builders and slabs, so no reader mistakes the argument for poetry.

    Philosophy

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