(adv.) In a dull manner; stupidly; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit.
Example Sentences:
(1) We left with a wind-up frog that seemed entrancingly lifelike in the shop floor demo, but at home just trundled dully up and down the bathtub until it caught black mould and was banished to the airing cupboard.
(2) About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along But Swartz's death came like a thunderbolt in cyberspace, because this insanely talented, idealistic, complex, diminutive lad was a poster boy for everything that we value about the networked world.
(3) She felt hollow and lifeless and compared herself to the calm centre of a tornado, "moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo", she writes.
(4) Standard laboratory blood tests did not reveal any remarkable significant leukocyte abnormalities, but flow cytometric analysis of lymphocytes revealed a paucity of B cells stained with anti-light chain antibodies, and an increased proportion of T lymphocytes which were dully-stained with anti-CD5 monoclonal antibody.
(5) (1969), a dully temporising Hollywood account of the life of Che Guevara, in which at one point Sharif’s Guevara is confronted by Jack Palance ’s Fidel Castro with the mumbled expostulation: “Che, sometimes I just don’t understand you.” The Last Valley (1971) and The Horsemen (1971) were poorly rated would-be spectacles.
(6) Sister chromatid exchanges occurring in these chromosomes are apparent as interchanges of brightly and dully fluorescing chromatids.
(7) Without protease treatment, only the platelets were specifically, though dully, fluorescent.
Duly
Definition:
(adv.) In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it (anything) ought to be; properly; regularly.
Example Sentences:
(1) They learned from a good example.” His replacement, Diego Costa, duly hauled the hosts level by scoring his 20th league goal of an impressive first campaign in English football from the penalty spot after John O’Shea tripped Cuadrado.
(2) The process responsible for generating this delay was switched on with a time constant of 8 ms at 4 degrees C, which fell to about 1 ms at 15 degrees C. Analysis of the inward tail currents at the end of a voltage-clamp pulse showed that there was a substantial external accumulation of potassium owing to the restriction of its diffusion out of the Schwann cell space, which, when duly allowed for, roughly doubled the calculated value of the potassium conductance.
(3) The blue skipping rope – that’s the key to this race.” My eight-year-old daughter looked at me like I was mad … but when it came time for the year 3 skipping race, she did as she was told – and duly chalked up a glorious personal best in third place.
(4) Aiyenugba duly saved Ben Frej's effort as Enyimba prevailed 5-3 and retained their crown.
(5) The medico-legal importance of MMF and the principal possibility of their treatment (when duly diagnosed) is pointed out.
(6) The stadium was duly dotted with forlorn patches of brightly colored camp t-shirts whose inhabitants spent the game wilting off their seats in temperatures which stood at 101 degrees before kick off.
(7) The wag added the line "these allegations are completely unsubstantiated and have no basis in reality," which was duly tweeted out by the account.
(8) Then he drills an ace down the line, and duly wins the game with a gentle drop shot over the net.
(9) 42 patients with duly terminated orthodontic treatment were re-examined at intervals of one year during a period of five years.
(10) The absence of a virilizing action is duly pointed out.
(11) The recommendations are duly translated into procedures that the staff of each agency must follow – a new recording form or assessment procedure, more meetings – Mashs (Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hubs), the Laming report's safeguarding children boards, child protection plan meetings and so forth.
(12) They duly served their purpose in crippling trade unionism, above all during the 1984-85 miners' strike, the British bobby's unfinest hour.
(13) That was not necessarily a disaster for a team with West Ham’s skill set, however, so well stocked are they with long-range shooters, and both Pedro Obiang and Noble duly hit the woodwork from distance before half-time.
(14) Duly noted: headline potential should an error from the USA's Southampton-based goalkeeper decide this or any other match.
(15) "Attack, attack, attack," was the order from the Stretford End, and United duly obliged.
(16) I will get the overall standings worked out today, and post them below the line as soon as I can; all six-pickers will be duly acknowledged at the top of next week’s blog.
(17) A Kazakh spokesman duly declared his country "honoured and privileged to have such attention on the part of two prime ministers".
(18) In New Hampshire, as police informed an MSNBC television reporter, who duly passed on the news to his stunned anchorman, only carrying a concealed weapon is illegal.
(19) The moment had come for Defoe – initially very big on economy of effort – to use all that cleverly conserved energy to remind everyone of his enduring ability and, latching on to Johnson’s pass, the 33-year-old duly obliged.
(20) He duly obliged and the crowd was treated to the first look at Age of Ultron, starting with a witty interchange between the Avengers as each, enjoying a drink and dressed in civilian clothing, tries to lift Thor’s hammer.