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 Translation for 'banal' from English to Icelandic
ADJ   banal | more banal / banaler | most banal / banalest
ófrumlegur {adj}banal
lágkúrulegur {adj}banal
flatneskjulegur {adj}banal
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Translation for 'banal' from English to Icelandic

banal
ófrumlegur {adj}

lágkúrulegur {adj}

flatneskjulegur {adj}
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Usage Examples English
  • Although the track was briefly very popular, some critics claimed its UK garage-style beat and characterless vocals made it banal.
  • "The New York Times" review called the book's humor “tiresome and banal”.
  • Urban routine, observed on almost every corner. From the banal to the sacred and back again.
  • Shubhra Gupta of "The Indian Express" stated that Huma Qureshi flourishes in a web series with banal writing.
  • It was a "banal mill" ("moulin banal"), built to meet the seigneur's obligation to build a flour mill for the people of the seigneury.

  • On 8 April Jelačić took his banal oath and was appointed a field-marshal-lieutenant and made commander of the Military Frontier.
  • "The New York Times" called it an "undistinguished" film with a "standard, banal story".
  • Reception was generally favourable. Critics praised their lively performances, though some took issue with the banal topics for interest such as heartbreak.
  • Brian Rosebury judges the text of the poem to be banal and its couplets technically inept.
  • Pamanang banal, Balaog nin Dios.

  • The "AIA Guide to New York City", 5th edition, calls the building a "banal glass box".
  • Their lyrics cover life in its disparate forms, sometimes banal, other times fantastic.
  • Kitsch, applied to art and design, means naïve imitation, overly eccentric, gratuitous or of banal taste.
  • Payment for the use of the banal mill, oven and press was usually in kind and proportional to use, e.g.
  • Banalités ([...]; from "ban") were, until the 18th century, restrictions in feudal tenure in France by an obligation to have peasants use the facilities of their lords.

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