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monotonously

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mo·not·o·nous  (m-ntn-s)
adj.
1. Sounded or spoken in an unvarying tone.
2. Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety. See Synonyms at boring.
[From Greek monotonos : mono-, mono- + tonos, tone; see tone.]
mo·noto·nous·ly adv.
mo·noto·nous·ness n.
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Adv.1.monotonously - in a monotonous manner; "the history of the play throughout the latter part of the eighteenth century is monotonously uneventful"


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It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness.
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THERE is something repellent to me, even at this distance of time, in looking back at the dreary days, of seclusion which followed each other monotonously in my Highland home.
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Making so long a passage through such unfrequented waters, descrying no ships, and ere long, sideways impelled by unvarying trade winds, over waves monotonously mild; all these seemed the strange calm things preluding some riotous and desperate scene.
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