prosy
/ˈprəʊzi
/adjective (prosier, prosiest)
(Especially of speech or writing) showing no imagination; commonplace or dull: he junked most of the prosy script his handlers had written for him...
- Her character portraits are cold and bloodless, the larger vision is prosy and constipated, and her self-conscious literary tone has the musty odor of a vanity-press poetry journal.
- Even so, better - perhaps - the fake-Scots of this bad-tempered poet's youth than the prosy dreariness of his maturity.
- With publication, anecdotes became more polished, the characters less distinctive and stereotypical, the prevailing tone patronising and prosy.
Derivatives
prosily
/ adverb ...- But some actors declaim it with that incipient sob that used to be the sine qua non of the grand style, while others trundle along prosily.
prosiness
/ noun ...- And while language and the power of speech are the most consistent themes, the execution of the poems themselves - or at least of their translations - tends toward mere prosiness.
- While many of his contemporaries took poetry toward prosiness, he cultivated what turned out to be a dazzling talent for rhyme.
Rhymes
- Morris, William
- morro
- morrow
- drink the Kool-Aid
- drink with the flies
- drip
- drip-dry
- drip feed
- dripless
- drip mat
- drip moulding
- drippily
- drippiness
- dripping
- drippy
- dripstone
- drivability
- drivable
- drive
- drive a coach and horses through
- drive a hard bargain
- drive a nail into the coffin of
- drive a wedge between
- drive bay
- drive belt