as in unexciting
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Recent Examples of unrewarding
Cerebral men of letters often make unrewarding screen protagonists, spending too much time in their own heads to fully engage as characters.
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
But if long Covid is really a form of ME/CFS, this approach will likely be unrewarding.
—Steven Phillips, STAT, 14 Sep. 2023
Baseball is a cruel, often unrewarding, game of inches.
—Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 10 June 2023
Strategic incompetence is not necessarily a conscious choice so much as a reflexive rejection of activity that feels unrewarding and unimportant.
—Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
But if long Covid is really a form of ME/CFS, this approach will likely be unrewarding.
—Steven Phillips, STAT, 14 Sep. 2023
Baseball is a cruel, often unrewarding, game of inches.
—Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 10 June 2023
Strategic incompetence is not necessarily a conscious choice so much as a reflexive rejection of activity that feels unrewarding and unimportant.
—Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
See all Example Sentences for unrewarding
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrewarding
Adjective
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The camera angles were weird, the teleprompter seemed like it was broken, and sure, a lot of the banter was fun, but the choices for winners were rather straightforward and unexciting.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2025
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His expeditions are, compared to Shackleton’s, unexciting stories.—
Martin Gutmann,
Orlando Sentinel,
4 Jan. 2025
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That’s an uninspiring list; none of those players are legitimate options in a championship-level rotation.—
Jovan Buha,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
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After two strong years in 2023 and 2024, risk increases for an uninspiring 2025.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
11 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Health systems in the U.S. are struggling to contend with burnout, staffing shortages and razor thin margins, so companies are racing to develop AI tools that can streamline some of the industry’s more tedious administrative tasks.—
Ashley Capoot,
CNBC,
18 Jan. 2025
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Not on the practice field, but in the training room, going about the small tedious tasks of rehabbing a knee injury.—
Adam Grosbard,
Orange County Register,
17 Jan. 2025
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Manager Gareth Southgate has been under pressure for the English being defensive and mostly uninteresting to watch, but the results have been good enough.—
Dan Santaromita,
The Athletic,
10 July 2024
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The path that was designed for her was uninteresting to her.—
Adam Moss,
Vulture,
19 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The entire family is outraged, but Peter insists that the film is slow, boring and essentially, overrated.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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Recently, Jennifer Lopez has been a big fan of natural manicures, which are anything but boring.—
Lea Hüttinger,
Glamour,
20 Jan. 2025
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Experts say that a monotonous schedule can help reduce decision fatigue, but there are downsides.—
Jeff John Roberts,
Fortune,
24 Jan. 2025
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The copious amounts of sunlight in the film can make for a monotonous sameness, and for all her efforts to seem cool, Dynevor’s stoicism falls flat against that backdrop.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Loud, tiresome and half-baked, the off-kilter hilarity and attempts at sentimentality aren’t given much clearance to land, causing the emotional overtones to feel unearned.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
29 Jan. 2025
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Even after the online arguments about Beyoncé’s influences and ideology became tiresome, Cowboy Carter’s music remained grander and weirder than discourse could capture.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
17 Dec. 2024
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For some, the coconut tree became a metaphor of joy in the otherwise banal political system.—
Raven Maragh-Lloyd,
The Conversation,
15 Jan. 2025
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As someone who’s spent several Christmases in hotels or stadiums covering banal NFL matchups or blowouts in the College Football Playoff, there’s always a spot in my soul for the melancholy.—
The Athletic NFL Staff,
The Athletic,
26 Dec. 2024
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“Unrewarding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrewarding. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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