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Definition of "prosing" []

  • Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner. (adjective)

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Use "prosing" in a sentence
  • "You want to hear about her; maybe you would find it kind of prosing; but there, the afternoon sun _is_ pretty hot, and the haymakers out there in the meadows have got a hard time of it."
  • "The rest of his time he spent in talk, and since I was a new listener I had to endure a good deal of his prosing in those first weeks."
  • "Any gang of politicos is like the eighth circle of Hell, but the American breed is specially awful because they take it seriously and believe it matters; wherever you went, to dinner or an excursion or to pay a call, or even take a stroll, you were deafened with their infernal prosing-I daren't go to the privy without making sure some seedy heeler wasn't lying in wait to get me to join a caucus."
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