Dullness
The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness.
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Dullness Quotations
Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
Alexander Pope
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
George Eliot
The devil's name is dullness.
Robert E. Lee
This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.
Henry A. Wallace
Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
Walter Bagehot
The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.
Burl Ives
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg
Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.
Charles Churchill
Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.
Josephus Daniels
He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
Samuel Foote
Dullness Translations
dullness in German is Unlust
dullness in Spanish is estupidez
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