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dry
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See: jejune, languid, lifeless, pedestrian, prosaic, unproductive

DRY. Used figuratively, it signifies that which produces nothing; as, dry exchange; dry rent; rent seek.



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Its gags are as dry as dust, eschewing the gut-rattling guffaws to which network sitcoms aspire.
The "incident" of Prague, 1968, comes off in this book as dry as dust.
It's a quirk of nature, whereby storms rolling in off the California coast lose much of their moisture over the Nevada and Utah deserts, and when snow begins falling here it's usually as dry as dust.
 
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