A jejune narrative. A dry, tedious one. (Latin, jejuʹnus, dry, spiritless.)
“Till farce itself, most mournfully jejune,
Calls for the kind assistance of a tune.”
Sowper: Retirement, 711.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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