What is "dullish"

Usage examples of "dullish".

Dropping to one knee, he used the dullish spearpoint of the guidon to pierce the thigh of one likely target.

A miraculous space in the dullish brown distemper of the countryside, cool, white and open, an offering to the royal lake.

For the ragged-trousered man, with practically buttonless blue shirt and greasy e-stained torn coat held together by one string-suspended cloth button, unshaven face carrying beard a half-inch long, and cloth cap on one side of shaggy, thinning half-greyed head, was scraping away, with the broken blade of a dullish looking barley knife, the rounded nubbin of what had once been the end of a loaf of bread.

It seemed no more than a dullish office that looked like a building-society branch office.

And beneath the hat, a band of thin cotton, itself dullish green in color, perhaps to catch sweat from the forehead?

Aiain was silent and sat for a while, turning his wine goblet and watching the blood-red liquid swirl in the dullish glow from the brazier.

The lighting inside the office was subdued and the gathering gloom of dusk from the overhead dome cast a dullish light over the office, the kind of evening light that could vanish in seconds, Lithia Forrester had changed into a red silk hostess gown.

But in William Compline with his dullish appearance, his devotion to his mother, his dubious triumph over his brother, Mandrake hoped to find matter for his art.

I stopped into Dave’s Kwik Stop on my way home from work and couldn’t help but notice the cashier, a bulky, short-haired boy who had "athletic scholarship" written all over his broad, dullish face and "Drew Pierson: I’m here to help!

There was some discussion among the more knowledgeable onlookers of nanocarbon tubes embedded in a bonding ceramic or glass matrix, but the dullish appearance of the intruder’s matte epidermis provided little in the way of support or rebuttal for such theory.