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prosaic

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1. prosaic - Adjective

2. prosaic - Adjective Satellite

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Alt. of Prosaical

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There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life. H. P. Lovecraft

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

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic. Charles Baudelaire

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit. Cesare Pavese

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic. Jan Morris

Oh, I agree he went mad in the end. It is the only explanation. Something must have snapped in that fine brain, and he saw the little bit more which we call madness. Thank God, you and I are prosaic fellows... John Buchan

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