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(especially of speech or writing) showing no imagination; commonplace or dull.
‘he junked most of the prosy script his handlers had written for him’
‘Even so, better - perhaps - the fake-Scots of this bad-tempered poet's youth than the prosy dreariness of his maturity.’
‘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.’
‘Here was a master who was writing poems that appealed to the ear, with a dense, concentrated music quite unlike the slack, loose, prosy style of many American poets at the time.’
‘With publication, anecdotes became more polished, the characters less distinctive and stereotypical, the prevailing tone patronising and prosy.’
‘And yet if it's inevitable that the Biennial ‘has something wrong with it’ - and we would be strangely disappointed if it did not - the exhibition regularly displays certain prosy virtues.’