Definition of "dry-as-dust" [dry-as-dust]

• Very dry or uninteresting; prosaic.
• A dull, dry, prosaic person. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Mr. Cohen has thus produced the opposite of a dry-as-dust academic tome, and it is full of surprises."
• "Whenever architecture has been reduced to simply being about architecture, it has suffered -- whether under the dry-as-dust reforming classicist Abbé Laugier during the eighteenth century, or Mies and Corbu in the twentieth."
• "Love proceeds not out of the dry-as-dust way of the mind."