Likewise, skin and hair that is washed with hard water may look comparatively dull or feel sticky.

Watchmen are needed for the comparatively dull assignments like this one, for the mill as a channel of power has considerable value to the society, and full employment is guaranteed by the government.

This is reasonable, since such a comparatively dull sense makes it certain that anything that does taste sweet contains a large amount of sugar and is worth eating.

Some June-bugs buzzed me; no, they were je-june bugs, comparatively dull and uninteresting.

What made this comparatively dull Virginian the father of a nation, then, was his character, but the 18th century did not think of character in quite the way we do now.

The picture is like a vision of the ecstatic female id so demurely contained in Bonnard's two comparatively dull portraits of a sweet, round-head woman to either side.

You must choose-Tris and the rest of us, or the solid and loving if comparatively dull life of a broker's mate, possibly getting a job in his firm.

Gorgon I returned to my comparatively dull existence at the castle.

The most valuable grades have roughly equal portions of three or more primary colors or 1-2 bright and even colors, with the lowest grades having one comparatively dull color predominant.

The mottled bark, its colour ranging from greyish orange to greyish brown, is considered comparatively dull by some.