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adjective

Unimaginative, dull, commonplace, matter-of-fact; vapid; humdrum; tiresome.

It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.

—Stendhal (Marie Henri Beyle) “Various Fragments” De l’Amour (1822)

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