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  • s  lacking wit or imagination

  • Within the town of Buffalo Are prosy men with leaden eyes; Like ants they worry to and fro, Important men in Buffalo.
  • The testimonies of Pendle Hill's morning meetings for worship might have seemed somewhat prosy to a man whose fierce fervor of inward prayer is reported to have shaken the walls .
  • Undigested lumps of Marx and Freud swallowed in youth appear to catalyze these prosy nightmares.
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    Boosterism: “the act of ‘boosting’ or promoting a town with the goal of improving public perception of it.” “America’s Finest City” (see what I mean?) has a long, purple-prosy tradition of hyping itself to the skies.
    Dec. 12, 2013 - San Diego Reader

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