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Word: nondescript

Definition: undistinctive; ordinary; ordinary-looking; Ex. nondescript fellow in a crowd


Sentences Containing 'nondescript'

Besides, the English whalers sometimes affect a kind of metropolitan superiority over the American whalers; regarding the long, lean Nantucketer, with his nondescript provincialisms, as a sort of sea-peasant.

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