Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A dull place, thing, or condition: "You're on the down escalator to doubt, dullsville, and despair” ( James Wolcott).
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From dull + -ville, evoking a (fictional) town. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The shutting odnw down of our international offices is again going to expose WA to having a greater tag of 'dullsville'.”
“Admittedly, the Lexus LFA looks fast standing still, but other than that, it was dullsville.”
Consumer Reports: 2011 Detroit Auto Show: Is fun making a comeback?
“But you have to admit, the original Jane was boring, always a victim, goody-two-shoes dullsville.”
“Though the chemistry of the two leads for the most part carries the story, what saves the evening from dullsville is more the enthusiasm of the ensemble cast and the audience cheering them on than our identification with sharply defined characters whose plights are meant to be our own.”
The Huffington Post: James Scarborough: The Wedding Singer, Musical Theatre West
“The big numbers belonged to friend and teammate Dwyane Wade, who scored 38 points, 23 of them in an otherwise dullsville first half.”
The Wall Street Journal: A Messy Start to a Juicy NBA Playoff Series
“But if you don't do it, what you end up with is dullsville.”
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“Our smartest young people have tended to pursue such fields as law, marketing and finance rather than manufacturing, which is seen wrongly as a ticket to dullsville.”
“This might work for other couples, but it became dullsville for us.”
“When Gwyneth Paltrow made a series of public appearances in dramatic, fashion-forward outfits a while back in a bid to ditch her dullsville image, she chose shoes with heels of 15cm or upwards.”
The Guardian: High heels: 'In the year of Lady Gaga, extreme is where it's at'
“I just started working with an agent who told me my query letter was a little dullsville, but the title of my YA manuscript made her laugh, so she took a look at the pages - which also made her laugh.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dullsville’.
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simple & useful9
heartrendingly, rancorous, ferocity, earful, dispiriting, dandification, ascribing, monotonic, smattering, yesteryear, sword of damocles, blubbering and 104 more...
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A Long, Strange Trip
You'll definitely need a map. Inspired by Son of Groucho's comment on Islets of Langerhans.
slough of despond, pit of despair, den of iniquity, islets of langerhans, hippocampus, boulevard of brok..., canals of hering, hesselbach's tria..., crypts of lieberkühn, angle of louis, circle of willis, traube's space and 102 more...
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Tweets
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reesetee Not to be mistaken for squaresville. ;-) Nov 1, 2007
mkarol A hipster noun and/or adjective referring to a person, place or thing that is extremely boring or uninteresting. Usage popular beginning around 1960. And ending soon thereafter.
Oct 31, 2007