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dully

ADVERB
  1. without liveliness
    she nodded her head dully
  2. 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.
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