(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.