dreadfully dull
Frequency: 7.04.1 per million words
used to emphasize how boring something is
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Examples (20)
- The movie we watched last night was dreadfully dull.
- The professor's lecture on economic theory was dreadfully dull.
- I found the long history lecture dreadfully dull and nearly fell asleep.
- We left the cinema early because the film was dreadfully dull.
- He described his life in the small, quiet town as dreadfully dull.
- I had to make an excuse to leave the party; it was dreadfully dull.
- The first chapter of the novel was so dreadfully dull that I couldn't continue reading.
- He tried to finish the novel, but found the plot dreadfully dull.
- The corporate event turned out to be a dreadfully dull affair.
- Most of the weekly team meetings are dreadfully dull and unproductive.
- His new job consists of performing dreadfully dull administrative tasks all day.
- After moving from the city, she found life in the small town dreadfully dull.
- In my honest opinion, the long political debate was dreadfully dull.
- His conversation is always so predictable and dreadfully dull.
- The meeting would have been dreadfully dull without her witty interjections.
- The second season of the show became dreadfully dull, so I stopped watching.
- I expected the art exhibition to be exciting, but most of it was dreadfully dull.
- The endless paperwork made his once-exciting job feel dreadfully dull.
- The long winter evenings can feel dreadfully dull without any hobbies.
- To be honest, I find the whole subject of stamp collecting dreadfully dull.