How to Use unadventurous in a Sentence

unadventurous

adjective
  • But this doesn’t mean that wine drinkers today are unadventurous.
    Bon Appétit, 5 May 2021
  • The president has stuck to a mostly unadventurous menu.
    Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Views was Drake’s safest and most unadventurous album to-date, a work that sometimes felt like a marketing seminar disguised as music.
    Jack Hamilton, Slate Magazine, 22 Mar. 2017
  • Sacked by the chairman, replaced by a perpetual winner who, at the time of writing, looks likely to break that habit with us, turning us into a boring, unadventurous, mid-table, mediocre side in the process.
    Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 8 May 2021
  • The Jetta features crisp, unadventurous styling inside an out.
    Gary Gastelu, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2018
  • Right or wrong, San Diego’s collective palate has long been considered unadventurous.
    Michele Parente, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2019
  • The team became a kind of lazy shorthand for tastefully unadventurous filmmaking, and unfairly so.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Having looked unadventurous prior to the clash, Everton seemed to focus less on keeping a clean sheet and more on outscoring their opponent, and were rewarded by trebling their season goal tally.
    SI.com, 8 Sep. 2019
  • If your dad’s formalwear game has been a bit unadventurous as of late, Comme des Garçons’s colorful floral tie should liven up an otherwise traditional suit.
    Madeline Fass, Vogue, 24 May 2018
  • Not that Chambers has led a dull, plotless, unadventurous existence.
    Jason Kehe, Wired, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Widely criticised for the unadventurous nature of United's performances for much of this season, Mourinho has been increasingly tetchy of late.
    Afp, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Since taping, Cicolini has emerged as somewhat of a local celebrity and rightfully so — her innovative, Abbruzzo-style approach to proteins that many unadventurous eaters shy away from (like tripe, liver and heart) is food artistry at its finest.
    Joey Skladany, PEOPLE.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • An unadventurous and disciplined Villarreal side, expertly coached by Unai Emery, sat back and invited United to attack, but they were put under very little pressure.
    Sam Pilger, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • Despite all its museums, stately architecture and polished thoroughfares — or perhaps because of them — the Upper East Side’s reputation is as a stuffy, cushioned cloister of the wealthy and unadventurous.
    Robert Simonson, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Like Rugani, Rodrigo Bentancur has failed to show any tangible progress, and his passing has become increasingly unadventurous after a string of high profile mistakes.
    Adam Digby, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Usually unadventurous tactics, defensive formations and questionable team selections are the main things that Moyes will be remembered for at the London Stadium - even while his mission has been a success overall.
    SI.com, 15 May 2018
  • The overpriced, unadventurous wine list is disappointing.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The cult of experience and stoicism ultimately offer little solace (as Hemingway learned himself) when advancing age dulls the senses and sharpens the reality of inevitable (and probably unadventurous) death.
    D.j. Tice, Star Tribune, 5 Apr. 2021

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