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The phrase "a dull guy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is uninteresting or lacks excitement in personality or behavior.
Example: "At the party, everyone was having fun, but he just sat in the corner, looking like a dull guy."
Alternatives: "a boring person" or "an uninteresting individual."
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The handsome hero's a dull guy.
Mrs. Chisholm, an actress who suffered a nervous breakdown and married a dull guy from Dayton, warns Gabby, "Don't let them stifle you with their talk about duty.
Emily has been sleeping with a dull guy in her office (Kevin Bacon, in an unwritten part), and Cal, hearing this news from Emily as she drives them through Los Angeles (the movie's geography is a little vague), opens the car door and drops to the street like a misplaced bag of groceries.
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And Lynch is, truthfully, a pretty dull guy.
OK, who is the most boring star you met? "One of the flaws I felt in Paul [Newman] was that he was a pretty dull guy to be around.
Matt works as a local lawyer, a decent, even dull guy, with two daughters and a wife who we see ambulatory only in the opening shot.
And that's the problem with Middle Men: Jack is played as a realistic (if dull) guy who leaves his wife for a porn star; that you can believe.
There is nothing particularly awful in John's life, just a witless, self-involved mom (her opening soliloquy about lettuce is a gem), and a worried sister and the gentle, dull guy pursuing her, who illustrate the social and school worlds from which John feels increasingly alienated.
Dull guys, dull.
The dull guys, on the other hand, get to sire significantly more young than do the intermediate-colored males--even though their partners do sometimes cheat on them.
If Vincent were simply the domineering bad guy and Max his innocent hostage, the movie would be a dull and sadistic exercise in violation and payback.
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