Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dullspirited.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Dull-spirited.
Etymologies
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Examples
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-- For Hecuba? whilst he (Hamlet), 'a dull and muddy-mettled rascal, '[21] like
Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis
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What I saw was Hecuba to me -- gave me the motive and the cue for passion, transformed me from the dull and muddy-mettled little John-a-dreams I had been into a small, blind Fury.
Paul Kelver, a Novel 1893
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I was told, was a sign of good lineage; muddy-mettled rascals lacked it; so that I was much distressed by the smooth, plebeian bluntness, at that time, of my own little snub.
Hawthorne and His Circle Julian Hawthorne 1890
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