ADVERB
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without liveliness
she nodded her head dully -
without luster or shine
the light shone dully through the haze
unpolished buttons glinted dully
How To Use dully In A Sentence
- The sun was a pale circle in the white sky, glinting dully on the frosty grass.
- One hour of right down love is worth an age of dully living on.
- The third was a lengthy and dully-written biography of a late nineteenth-century general.
- While the drum beat slowly, a havildar and two naiks went along the ranks of the prisoners, tearing the buttons off the uniform coats; they had been half cut off before-hand, to make the tearing easy, and soon in front of the long grey line there were little scattered piles of buttons, gleaming dully in the sultry light; the grey coats hung loose, like sacks, each with a dull black face above it. Fiancée
- Garbage blowing on the sidewalk would offend them as much as would a dully designed highrise.
- Puddles of frozen slush glittered dully in the reflected yellow light from the phony gas lamps that illuminated the brick-paved plaza. A RODENT OF DOUBT
- It was cool and dark there, and on a low table by the bed there was already a kerosene lamp burning dully through its dirty chimney.
- Puddles of frozen slush glittered dully in the reflected yellow light from the phony gas lamps that illuminated the brick-paved plaza. A RODENT OF DOUBT
- One hour of right down love is worth an age of dully living on.
- Ruby laser light stitched the interior of the sanctum like thinnest threads of stronger flame within a dully glowing oven.