as in unexciting
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Recent Examples of unrewarding
Baseball is a cruel, often unrewarding, game of inches.
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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
Maddie stands at the center of what is essentially a dissolving home, sending money to her mother, tending to her father and working a dull, unrewarding job at a theater company.
—Diana Abu-Jaber, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
The roles other than Fedora and Loris are thoroughly unrewarding.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2023
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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
Maddie stands at the center of what is essentially a dissolving home, sending money to her mother, tending to her father and working a dull, unrewarding job at a theater company.
—Diana Abu-Jaber, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
The roles other than Fedora and Loris are thoroughly unrewarding.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrewarding
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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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David, a husband and father, holds down an unexciting but lucrative tech job.Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2024
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In May 2023, the Turkish opposition came within a few points of beating a long-ruling populist strongman, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, despite fielding an uninspiring candidate who failed to offer a convincing agenda for economic improvement.Larry Diamond, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024
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The announcement came soon after a presidential debate performance in late June that many saw equally uninspiring and troubling, and led to subsequent questions about Biden’s mental fitness and ability to defeat Republican nominee Donald Trump.Sydney Lake, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
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But brace yourself: The process of obtaining dual citizenship can be quite tedious, fraught with red tape and byzantine rules.Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Nov. 2024
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Dismayed by tedious, mandatory and frequently counterproductive diversity, equity and inclusion seminars that treat white skin as almost inherently problematic?Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Even a feature-length version of this plot would likely struggle with its lack of ideas, but 10 half-hour episodes feel punishing, well before a finale that offers an uninteresting explanation of the main mystery, and can’t even be bothered to resolve several other running plot threads.Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
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But the color work on the series isn’t just about pulling off the tricks that every DP would like to make a TV show look a little more appealing — darkening uninteresting blank spaces within a frame, making the color consistent between shots, and smoothing out any variables in the lighting.Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 29 Sep. 2024
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Black Friday Saks Fifth Avenue Jewelry Deals Basics don’t have to be boring—and this Black Friday, why not restock your everyday essentials?Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 29 Nov. 2024
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Winner of the Locarno Jury Prize, this daring essay-film is radical and often bleak but, even at its nearly 3-hour run time, never boring.Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2024
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Vassilev said the focus will be on less-risky parts of a business, such as highly-repetitive and monotonous tasks that workers don’t want to do.Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 19 Nov. 2024
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Thornton upholstered the headboard in the same blue-and-white toile as the wallpaper but used different designs of similar colors for the window curtains, bed coverings, and assorted cushions, so the room feels neither too disjointed nor too monotonous.Catherine Hong, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2024
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Even for the hottest among us, snapping a fantastic selfie can be tough and tiresome.Erica Sloan, SELF, 11 Oct. 2024
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None of them are written with any specificity, though the actors manage to land the lines and elicit a few chuckles here and there — except for a tiresome twosome who try to speak with a Brooklyn accent for the entirety of the movie.Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
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Well, that many people reportedly tried to watch it, but due to the crush of interest and tune-ins, many reported experiencing buffering problems and glitches that interrupted what turned out to be a surprisingly banal slugfest.Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 22 Nov. 2024
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The long passages of banal detail in Murakami’s fiction are a sort of ballast, anchoring his precipitous swerves into the fantastic.Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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