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comparative prosier, superlative prosiest
(of speech or writing) Unpoetic; dull and unimaginative. examples
(of a person) Behaving in a dull way; boring, tedious. quotations examples
CHARMIAN. He makes you so terribly prosy and serious and learned and philosophical. It is worse than being religious, at our ages.
1898, George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra
"Well, well, we all get a bit prosy sometimes," said Lord John.
1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton
I cannot imagine his pupil regarding him as anything but a prosy old pedant, set over him by his father to keep him out of mischief.
1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.19