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n. - One who is boring because he or she focuses on too many details.

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Usage examples (11)
  • Adjective : a dry-as-dust biography
  • Steeped though you frown in this dryasdust clever age,
  • In the last pages of the book, his literary executor, commenting on the journal that has been the vehicle for the narrative, reviews events from the perspective of an...
  • The writer, who is something of a tsiganologue, emboldened by his success, followed up his alphabet, which appeared January 21st, 1893, and within a year had placed to his...
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