unchallenging
adjective
un·chal·leng·ing
ˌən-ˈcha-lən-jiŋ 
1
: not presenting interesting difficulties or challenges : not challenging
found the work unchallenging
2
: not expressing or marked by doubt : unquestioning
an unchallenging acceptance of official instruction
unchallengingly
adverb
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Payton Cofer wasn't excited about her options for high school in Louisville's South End after two unchallenging years in a middle school that was short on staff.
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Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 6 Dec. 2024
The term is seen as emblematic of how digital consumption has shaped societal concerns, especially with the proliferation of superficial or unchallenging content online.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
Yet the Sonata begins with seven bars of technically unchallenging music, which anyone who reads notation can manage.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
Worse, that unchallenging, jokey tone undercuts the intriguing psychodrama at the play’s core.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2023
More pressingly, the writing, intent on remaining lightly comic and knowing, keeps delivering what is familiar and unchallenging.
—Vulture, 10 Aug. 2023
The unfairness of an economic system that could just as easily have relegated her to a lifetime of unchallenging work and undiscovered abilities sharpened her moral mission.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
Given his star power, the deliberately old-school, unchallenging nature of the storytelling, and the fact that Netflix has had some big hits of late in this general territory like The Night Agent and The Diplomat, and FUBAR seems poised to join them.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2023
Other analysts, though, said that the U.A.E. was high on Iran’s list of enemies and that the embassy in Ethiopia might present an unchallenging target at a time when Ethiopia is distracted by a war that has been raging in its northern Tigray region since November.
—New York Times, 15 Feb. 2021
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Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 6 Dec. 2024
The term is seen as emblematic of how digital consumption has shaped societal concerns, especially with the proliferation of superficial or unchallenging content online.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
Yet the Sonata begins with seven bars of technically unchallenging music, which anyone who reads notation can manage.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
Worse, that unchallenging, jokey tone undercuts the intriguing psychodrama at the play’s core.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2023
More pressingly, the writing, intent on remaining lightly comic and knowing, keeps delivering what is familiar and unchallenging.
—Vulture, 10 Aug. 2023
The unfairness of an economic system that could just as easily have relegated her to a lifetime of unchallenging work and undiscovered abilities sharpened her moral mission.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
Given his star power, the deliberately old-school, unchallenging nature of the storytelling, and the fact that Netflix has had some big hits of late in this general territory like The Night Agent and The Diplomat, and FUBAR seems poised to join them.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2023
Other analysts, though, said that the U.A.E. was high on Iran’s list of enemies and that the embassy in Ethiopia might present an unchallenging target at a time when Ethiopia is distracted by a war that has been raging in its northern Tigray region since November.
—New York Times, 15 Feb. 2021
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“Unchallenging.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unchallenging. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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