as in unsexy
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Recent Examples of unerotic
The director Ninja Thyberg’s new film is graphic yet deeply unerotic.
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 May 2022
Holbein was sensitive but cautiously unerotic in picturing women, who are usually sombre.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
Surprisingly, McKay offers nothing more graphic than that rather unerotic image.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 May 2022
Holbein was sensitive but cautiously unerotic in picturing women, who are usually sombre.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
Surprisingly, McKay offers nothing more graphic than that rather unerotic image.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unerotic
Adjective
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The ideology behind this approach, to the extent that there was one, went by a particularly unsexy name: legalism.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
13 Dec. 2024
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Some of the changes needed to eradicate poverty are small, unsexy bureaucratic adjustments, like local zoning reforms in Lexington and elsewhere.—
Abdallah Fayyad,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
Adjective
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At home, the atmosphere was decorous, curious, gentle; outside, the culture of the nineteen-fifties was tougher, valorizing war and papering over a darker, more furtive kind of violence.—
Joshua Rothman,
The New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2025
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Aside from a series of gruesome martyr scenes frescoed on the interior wall of the second ring in the late 16th century, the décor reflects late Imperial taste for decorous abstraction and costly materials.—
David Laskin,
New York Times,
24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Upon arrival in Key West, the group exchanges polite greetings, but the underlying tension is palpable.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
27 Jan. 2025
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If Trump lost McConnell on Hegseth, there is reason to think other Republican lawmakers might now look around and find good—and shrewd—company in the polite opposition.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Unerotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unerotic. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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