unrewarding

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Recent Examples of unrewarding Some or all of the Arab countries involved would likely demand that Israel halt settlement expansion on the West Bank or make other concessions to the Palestinians as the price of their participation in a difficult and unrewarding mission. Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023 Cerebral men of letters often make unrewarding screen protagonists, spending too much time in their own heads to fully engage as characters. 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 See All Example Sentences for unrewarding
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrewarding
Adjective
  • Economists were expecting Wednesday’s report to be fairly unexciting, with barely any change from December’s data.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Performance looks unexciting and the range is more like EVs from four years ago, making this more of a city or suburban runaround with commuting capabilities, rather than the car for that family holiday road trip.
    James Morris, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • All this from a team that, on paper in the preseason, looked wholly uninspiring.
    Brendan Quinn, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Ideally, containers should be within reach of your garden hose, which is less tedious than lugging heavy watering cans all over the place.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The big picture: Ad agencies can have a tedious and highly manual expense management process that's prone to human error.
    Lucinda Shen, Axios, 25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • For years, companies like Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott, and IHG primarily focused on consistent, but also largely uninteresting, hotels.
    Chris Dong, AFAR Media, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Activities were repetitive or uninteresting, new bosses were built around individual characters which was a poor format.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The whole thing also looks pretty—budget and midrange phones tend to be super boring, but the Pixel 8A has a smart design with a matte rear texture.
    Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Buck is a loquacious, glad-handing oaf who has a boring way with a witty story, and is marked for death.
    Fred Schruers, IndieWire, 27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • People are less likely to feel threatened by a tool that tackles monotonous administrative tasks than one that drafts an entire document.
    Hunter Steele, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • My mornings began with a monotonous dread that would persist throughout the day.
    Charley Locke, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Now, with Valentine’s Day just around the corner and a slew of singles who are similarly fatigued with endless swiping, hookup culture and tiresome first dates, a proliferation of alternatives are starting to pop up.
    Emily Burns, WWD, 11 Feb. 2025
  • That was a core part of the original series and the sibling rivalry stuff can get tiresome pretty quickly.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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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“Unrewarding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrewarding. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.

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