"monotonously" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 97:",
          "text": "Time passed as time ever does when passed monotonously, that is, with a degree of rapidity which only astonishes us when it is recalled to mind by some chance circumstance.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2007 July 25, Roberta Smith, “Figures Moving as if in a Trance Across an Isolated, Lawless Island”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:",
          "text": "The face of the dying man in the lingchi video monotonously evokes Maria Falconetti in Carl Theodor Dreyer ’s 1928 “Passion of Joan of Arc.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a manner that is tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tedious",
          "tedious"
        ],
        [
          "repetitious",
          "repetitious"
        ],
        [
          "variety",
          "variety"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
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          ],
          "text": "The minister spoke monotonously and his congregation began to doze.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a droning manner, that does not change pitch."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "droning",
          "droning"
        ],
        [
          "pitch",
          "pitch"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "sense": "in a manner that is tedious",
      "word": "monòtonament"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "in a manner that is tedious",
      "word": "monotonon"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "in a manner that is tedious",
      "word": "monotonul"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "in a manner that is tedious",
      "word": "monoton módon"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "in a manner that is tedious",
      "word": "monótonamente"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "sense": "in a droning manner",
      "word": "monòtonament"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "lang_code": "gl",
      "sense": "in a droning manner",
      "word": "monotonamente"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "in a droning manner",
      "word": "egyhangúan"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "in a droning manner",
      "word": "monotonamente"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "in a droning manner",
      "word": "monotonamente"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "in a droning manner",
      "word": "monótonamente"
    }
  ],
  "word": "monotonously"
}