as in dulled
not having brightness, brilliance, or vitality
a lackluster, dingy Main Street a lackluster performance His writing can be lackluster at times.
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as in grayness
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Recent Examples of lackluster
Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2025
The 49ers hired Schneider, 53, in 2022 after five largely lackluster years with Richard Hightower running their special teams.
—Matt Barrows, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
Heat coach Erik Spoelstra has attributed the back-to-back lackluster performances in part to Butler's two-week absence due to an illness.
—Astha Rajvanshi, NBC News, 4 Jan. 2025
This team was handicapped by lackluster play from the offensive line most of this season.
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 4 Jan. 2025
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The ride-hailing app has surged about 9% already in 2025, despite a lackluster performance in 2024 that saw shares end 2% lower.
—Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2025
The 49ers hired Schneider, 53, in 2022 after five largely lackluster years with Richard Hightower running their special teams.
—Matt Barrows, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
Heat coach Erik Spoelstra has attributed the back-to-back lackluster performances in part to Butler's two-week absence due to an illness.
—Astha Rajvanshi, NBC News, 4 Jan. 2025
This team was handicapped by lackluster play from the offensive line most of this season.
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 4 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lackluster
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On the thirteenth-century tomb of Eleanor of Aquitaine, she is shown wide awake and reading, while her dull and kingly husband sleeps for all eternity.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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If your hair is dull and prone to breakage, this serum is packed with gluco-peptides and wheat protein to help restore elasticity and strengthening the cuticle.—
Alanna Martine Kilkeary,
Glamour,
17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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But even that link is murky: In the case of breast cancer, for instance, carrying excess weight only seems to be a risk factor after menopause, and not before (for reasons that aren’t known).—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
23 Jan. 2025
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Meanwhile, TikTok’s overall future in the United States is equally murky.—
Maria Sole Campinoti,
CNN,
23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The Hughes Fire broke out in the late morning and within hours charred more than 15 square miles of trees and brush, sending up plumes of dark smoke near Lake Castaic, a popular recreation area about 40 miles from the devastating Eaton and Palisades fires that are burning for a third week.—
Marcio Jose Sanchez,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Jan. 2025
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Yu Ting Yuan, the hotel's flagship restaurant, offers diners a contrasting tenor with its dark, brooding interior splashed with gold and blood red, fresh flower sprays of pussywillow, orchids, and amaryllis, and soaring ceilings.—
Lauren Mowery,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The somber music should have been my first clue, but I was too wrapped up in the euphoria of Jane soon realizing that someone valued her life enough to save her from certain death.—
Lincee Ray,
EW.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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When a photographer suggests that the family pose with a somber demeanor for a shot that will be featured in an article about Rubens’ disappearance, Eunice refuses, instructing her children to smile broadly.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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Garage 66, the team that started this journey as MBM Motorsports and briefly seemed destined for obscurity, is now banking on a 22-year-old with a solid track record and a whole lot of determination.—
Greg Engle,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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Her unusual trajectory, and her being based outside the US, may have contributed to her relative obscurity in New York.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Lackluster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lackluster. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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