Dully

Word DULLY
Character 5
Hyphenation dul ly
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Dully"

What do we mean by dully?

In a dull manner; without liveliness; without lustre.

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The word "dully" in example sentences

We walked past a hodgepodge of club debris — heavy dishes stacked on a bar that receded into darkness, stuffed moose heads gazing dully from a reading-room floor — and climbed rickety stairs to the fifth floor. ❋ Unknown (2002)

He repeated the word dully, staring almost stupidly at the speaker. ❋ May Agnes Fleming (1860)

“Cathy Summers,” said Cathy, and I registered the last name dully in my head, crossing my arms and pressing my lips together as hard as I could. ❋ Morgan Matson (2010)

"I realize that," dully; "but it's not your fault, -- not any one's fault in particular that I can see." ❋ Lester [Illustrator] Ralph (1893)

Well then your unfounded opinion is "dully" noted ... and dismissed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She overbalanced hard into the rim of a fountain with a thump that echoed dully, and then lurched upright again, landing a wild punch on his shoulder. ❋ Karenhealey (2010)

“About two weeks,” he answered dully, and I knew then that he had already realized what was just beginning to dawn on me. ❋ Kristi Cook (2011)

Background: standing at the window of my elegant hotel room in Agra's Oberoi, I catch my first glimpse of the pale domes and spires of the Taj Mahal floating over the horizon, gleaming dully in the moist dawn light. ❋ Dominique Browning (2011)

However, quite a few webcasters waste that opportunity by dully reading a script. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Whalen plays the title character with eloquent understatement, exhibiting this vulnerable extrovert's humor and gift for gab, but also his ethereal and melancholy sides, revealed when he suddenly breaks into a recitation of Yeats or rants dully into the phone, fumbling with the receiver, during a drunken late-night call. ❋ Celia Wren (2011)

A feminist story of heroic strength has gotten re-written into a sensibility of weakness -- as if to be a feminist is to be a whiner, buffeted passively by circumstance and mean men that we dully condemn and vilify at every chance. ❋ Ph.D. Pamela Haag (2011)

A child shrieked dully from one of the dark houses, and ❋ Dennis Hiatt (2011)

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