dronesome
Appearance
English
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[edit]dronesome (comparative more dronesome, superlative most dronesome)
- Characterised or marked by droning
- 2007, Eva Rice, The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets:
- “It was that dronesome prefect, Williams-May. I got off lightly, actually. Thorpe was caught doing the same thing last night and got caned before breakfast.”
- 2013, K. W. Jeter, Fiendish Schemes:
- From a cobweb-shrouded gaggle of dronesome mapmakers, the Department has been transformed and enlarged into a network of spies, all answering directly to Mrs. Fletcher as they comb all of England's cities and countryside.
- 2014, Carl Magnus Palm, Abba: Bright Lights Dark Shadows:
- In hindsight, Frida's late-Sixties recordings have aged better than many of the oompah schlagers and dronesome ballads that were major hits around this time.