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I think he's trying to insert some humour into what could be a dull text, but the persistent labeling is a bit much.
The quality of the video is also pretty lackluster, sporting weak black levels and generally dull colors.
His father turned on a small lamp with a rose-colored shade, which cast a dull light across a wide bed, spread with a plum satin coverlet.
Some of our parishes are dull little affairs presided over by a fearful clergy and laity.
The coffee was strong, her grey eyes lacklustre, her dull hair stringy, just like during the torn days.
The scholarship is substantial, but the writing is a bit dull and lackluster.
This is not to say all research work performed in such an environment is necessarily dull and laborious.
It is a gifted novelist, indeed, who can make ordinary events come alive, and who can interest the reader in ordinary, even dull, characters.
He would be, like King Brian, a dull, safe choice for King, despite his callowness.
Though you agree that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, the industrious and methodical part of you will do justice to your work.
And if the model of critical practice sounds urbane, recondite and not a little esoteric, it need not be dull.
And she would shrug in recollection, unable to remember anything except that dull relief.
The wind caught the sails with a dull boom and the ship heeled about, tacking into the westerly breeze sweeping across the lake.
The cinema was amazingly comfortable, the company was great and the film itself kinda dull.
Peering round the doorframe into the dull landing, he saw Hannah's door open, and the bathroom door slightly ajar.
Non-winged and winged adults are usually shiny black while the smaller nymphs may appear to be a dull gray to black.
With the tinted lenses blocking out the worst of the bright sunlight, her headache receded to its previous dull ache.
It was cold and grey, as I remember Scotland being on those blank-faced days in winter when you're left feeling aimless and dull.
Once a dull, coarse material, today khadi is a multicolored wonder fabric with weaves as fine as muslin.
Then suddenly two explosions rocked the water and the Kursk was down, settling with a dull thump on the sea floor.
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She saw the dull brown tint creep into it as it densified, and she knew that it was smoke.
By passing the vapour of strong acetic acid through an iron tube heated to dull redness, and condensing the acetone thus formed.
Could anything be more dull than the life of an actor in a repertory theatre?
If the blood is anemic, or thin, then both lips and nails are pale and dull.
At first it was only by a dull sense of their presence, annihilating her own.
But self-improvement is a dull game when there is no one to applaud your score.
As they approached it, the dull hue that lay upon it resembled that of the leaden sky.
He began to think that Athol was not so dull a place as he had at first imagined.
The original of the auricula is a hardy perennial herb, of dwarf habit, bearing dull yellowish blossoms.
Any merit Avellaneda has is reflected from Cervantes, and he is too dull to reflect much.
The barn swallow has a dull reddish breast, and his back is rich blue, almost black.
The loud, rattling, birdy whistle in the low trees during dull weather Yan had traced to the Tree-frog.
By its dull reflection, the black rat could just distinguish his own whiskers.
While he lay, the waning, fading moon had risen, weak and bleared and dull.
As for the bondsman, he stared for several seconds in a sort of dull surprise.
At times Leavitt could be as uncannily brilliant as he was dull and boresome.
McKenzie sat quiet for a moment, until he heard the dull mutter of a bow wave outside and felt the slight rolling of the vessel.
But in his eyes the fire of fever burned like the braise of a Yule log, dull and ominous.
This flash of gold is the only brightness in the place, otherwise dull and monotonous.
I hated to see him sittin' dull and bunchy like he was when you brought him in.
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