Ennuyeux et qui dure trop longtemps.
Dull and going on too long.
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Son discours prosaïque a perdu la salle. — His prosy speech lost the room.
La conférence était plutôt verbeuse et difficile à supporter. — The lecture was quite prosy and hard to sit through.
Pourquoi chaque réunion ici est-elle si prosaïque ? — Why is every meeting here so prosy?
Ses lettres sont chaleureuses, mais le style est assez verbeux. — His letters are warm, but the style is rather prosy.
J'ai sauté les chapitres prosaïques et lu la fin. — I skipped the prosy chapters and read the ending.
Ne rends pas la fin si verbeuse. — Don't make the ending so prosy.
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