as in uninspiring
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Recent Examples of unexciting
David, a husband and father, holds down an unexciting but lucrative tech job.
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Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2024
The variety and talk spaces are, to put it frankly, some of the most stale and unexciting parts of the TV landscape.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 17 July 2024
He’s accumulated just under 1500 major league plate appearances, posting an acceptable but unexciting 97 wRC+.
—Tony Blengino, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
Humor hasn’t generally been director Eli Roth’s strong suit, but neither is the constant bang-kapow of gunfire, explosions and violence in this stale and stubbornly unexciting sci-fi action comedy.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024
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Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2024
The variety and talk spaces are, to put it frankly, some of the most stale and unexciting parts of the TV landscape.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 17 July 2024
He’s accumulated just under 1500 major league plate appearances, posting an acceptable but unexciting 97 wRC+.
—Tony Blengino, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
Humor hasn’t generally been director Eli Roth’s strong suit, but neither is the constant bang-kapow of gunfire, explosions and violence in this stale and stubbornly unexciting sci-fi action comedy.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unexciting
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The report took into account living standards, cultural environment, housing, infrastructure, air quality and other features that can make a city either an attractive or uninspiring place to live.Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 4 Dec. 2024
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Nearly every contender in the league is eager to land an additional top-four capable defender and the supply of potentially available trade targets is both meagre and somewhat uninspiring.Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
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Automation enables human workers to opt out of repetitive tasks that are physically taxing but otherwise unrewarding.Massimo Bizzi, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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The 10 wave playlist mode is boring, short and unrewarding.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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Mommy did not travel all the way to Montreal in the frigid tundra to be passive and uninteresting.Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2024
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At conventions, she was relegated to uninteresting panels.Meghan Herbst, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2024
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If films like Nosferatu don’t find a wide audience and thrive in the marketplace, cinema faces a very bland, boring future.Scott Phillips, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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Either way, the winter garden is anything but boring.Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2024
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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
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Even teaming up with Hwang Jun-ho (Wi Ha-joon), the police detective who discovered that the Front Man was his own brother last season, to track down the island where the competition took place yields a monotonous search.Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2024
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An automation tool could churn out similar, monotonous content and reports every time.Vaibhav Kakkar, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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But the most sinister aspect of the movie, to me, is how banal its serial rapists are—how corny and ineffectual, these cringeworthy failsons.Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2024
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Both projects share a similar eye for the grotesquerie of the banal, with a generally condescending perspective toward rural desperation.Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2024
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Vodka, on the other hand, bucked the trend and saw an increase of 32 percent in value, showing that this spirits category, despite its bland reputation, remains incredibly popular.Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 24 Dec. 2024
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Additionally, its menus look bland and dull, seemingly slapped together to make the mode playable.Echo Apsey, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Unexciting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unexciting. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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