ponderous, turgid, lugubrious, stilted, overfamiliar, clunky, flaccid, insipid, overwrought, mawkish, bathetic, hackneyed, stagey, unaffecting, overlong, melodramatic, dull, treacly, pallid, portentous, stagy, mirthless, charmless, clumsy, florid, maudlin, uninspired, talky, lachrymose, unfocussed, bland, trite, dreary, drippy, overstuffed, lumpish, cloying, gloppy, doleful, pretentious, cliched, desultory, formulaic, droll, flabby, soporific, torpid, declamatory, grandiloquent, unpoetic, pedantic, nabokovian, passionless, toneless, humorless, muzzy, pythonesque, cheesy, inexpressive, pulpy, stolid, witless, stultifying, juiceless, affectless, languid, shopworn, hokey, rueful, joyless, banal, feeble, uninventive, unmemorable, jokey, shapeless, pompous, jejune, unvaried, teacherly, deadening, expository, morose, unamusing, platitudinous, unenlightening, somnambulistic, insubstantial, ropey, overdetermined, sententious, weighty, gluey, dolorous, sneery, twinkly, spiritless, slapstick, quavery, unconvincing, unentertaining, hitchcockian, leaders, clubs, newspapers, defections, spokesmen, dailies, hostile, opponents, agitators, editors, moderates, propagandists, stalwarts, strongholds, anti, bosses, delegates, factions, fraternities, parties, motionless, gunmetal, dark, dusky, steely, azure, blacker, smoky, unmoving, ashen, charmed, misty, moveless, opal, pearly, silvered, silvery, sooty, unnaturally, golden

bull, bulla, papal bull

cloudy, effortful, gray, grey, heavy, plodding, weighted