as in uninspiring
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Recent Examples of unexciting
While Gamuda reported unexciting results on Thursday, with net profit rising 5% year-on-year to 205.4 million ringgit in the three months ended October despite a 47% jump in revenue to 4.1 billion ringgit, Kenanga’s Teh projects stronger earnings ahead for the company.
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Jonathan Burgos, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
So the Royals have firmed up their second base position (lefty-hitting Massey should move into a bench role) with a stable if somewhat unexciting presence who is locked in for the next couple of years.
—Tony Blengino, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Yet the performance on Friday tended bland: lovely and unexciting.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
He’s been with the A’s since Jed Lowrie led the team in WAR (2017), and he’s developed into a reliable if unexciting innings eater for a team that’s really needed one over the last two seasons.
—Kaitlyn McGrath, The Athletic, 16 Apr. 2024
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Jonathan Burgos, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
So the Royals have firmed up their second base position (lefty-hitting Massey should move into a bench role) with a stable if somewhat unexciting presence who is locked in for the next couple of years.
—Tony Blengino, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Yet the performance on Friday tended bland: lovely and unexciting.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
He’s been with the A’s since Jed Lowrie led the team in WAR (2017), and he’s developed into a reliable if unexciting innings eater for a team that’s really needed one over the last two seasons.
—Kaitlyn McGrath, The Athletic, 16 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unexciting
Adjective
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Dallas owner Jerry Jones doesn’t strike confidence in his fan base, especially with this week’s uninspiring hire of Brian Schottenheimer.—
Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
8 Feb. 2025
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Reinsdorf surely knew any negative fan reaction the Bulls would receive for an uninspiring haul for LaVine would pale in comparison with the pounding the Mavericks were taking for dealing Dončić in his prime.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The big problem is that social media is unrewarding.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
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In many of the cases, the endings with Heat leading men have been awkward and, at least initially, unrewarding.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
15 Jan. 2025
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Activities were repetitive or uninteresting, new bosses were built around individual characters which was a poor format.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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The girls game was rather one-sided and uninteresting.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Harris, the narrator’s husband: Paul Mescal or Nick Kroll Can Ireland's sexiest chain-wearer reinvent himself as a boring straight guy who's not entirely fulfilling his wife?—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2025
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From awful ads to a divisive halftime show to a boring game, 10 things to forget.—
Brad Biggs,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2025
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At the far extreme, there is the insipid libertarianism of Ron Paul, the former Texas representative, who has claimed that Marine detachments guarding U.S. embassies count as examples of military overstretch.—
Bret Stephens,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Feb. 2013
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The blandly positive lyrics seemed even more insipid amid all the bedroom jams.—
Eric Webb,
Austin American-Statesman,
1 June 2024
Adjective
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Much of our modern architecture is monotonous, repetitive and without character.—
Kay Johnson,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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What seemed like innovative movement mechanics in 3D is stifled by repetitive, confusing level design with its monotonous mazes.—
Joel Thayer,
Newsweek,
26 Jan. 2025
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The thundering poet termed the result uninspired and banal, so the other professor went into Dickinson’s 1,800-poem corpus, retrieved an obscure quatrain and presented it to the poet, who called the result banal and uninspired.—
David Galef,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Feb. 2025
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Seeking Clues in Cabinet Cards The poignant images, at once banal and intimate, in the Lynch Family Photographs Collection contain mysteries perhaps only the public can solve.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
20 Feb. 2025
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If the bland season premiere is any indication, don’t expect many of those this year.—
Rebecca Jennings,
Vox,
13 Feb. 2025
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Their beiges aren’t at all bland and boring—quite the opposite, actually.—
Shanna Shipin,
Glamour,
12 Feb. 2025
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“Unexciting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unexciting. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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