How to Use unoriginal in a Sentence

unoriginal

adjective

• Putting him in this unoriginal movie should get you a few whacks with a wooden spoon.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023
• The latest film in the long-running saga is an unoriginal, tone-deaf mess.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 12 Dec. 2017
• What’s maybe most surprising is how unoriginal most of the work is.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2018
• Beckham pokes fun at Mendes and calls him unoriginal in a promo for the upcoming episode.
  — Jenna West, SI.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• SpaceX challenged the patent as unoriginal and won a split decision.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021
• So my advice is to apply the lessons of my unoriginal global observation to the grainy business of getting along with the people in your life.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
• Listen, saying Tom Hardy is a great actor is the most unoriginal take ever.
  — Megan Ditrolio, Marie Claire, 12 Apr. 2021
• His teacher said the design was unoriginal and gave him the mediocre grade, but offered to raise it to an A if the design was accepted nationally.
  — Josh Axelrod and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 14 June 2018
• The originals were directed by skilled but unoriginal directors who put their stars in the spotlight and kept the comedy bright and broad.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2023
• In good news, this unoriginal horror movie plays smart, funny, and breezy with its material, which is mostly the point of a good slasher flick anyway.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2017
• Veronica, meanwhile, sneaks into her dad’s office and opens the safe (the code is always her birthday, how unoriginal, Hiram) to grab the cash inside.
  — Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 26 Apr. 2018
• This is for obvious reasons: The current AI tools are prone to both errors and bias, and often produce dull, unoriginal writing.
  — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2023
• Both are also painfully unoriginal and predictable, using the same complaints about wokeness and crime again and again in predictable ways.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 26 June 2023
• That unoriginal name stands in stark contrast to the rather original collection of features that made the LE stand out, namely its blood-red leather interior and black paint job.
  — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 18 May 2023
• The result was tasteful and sensitive, if unoriginal: from Céline to Y/Project, echoes of other brands were palpable.
  — Angelo Flaccavento, CNN, 17 Jan. 2023
• Give me a break, Duffer Brothers, with this unoriginal nonsense.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 July 2022
• Students have filed complaints against services with the Better Business Bureau for not getting the grade promised as well as for unoriginal work, late assignments or billing concerns.
  — Tawnell D. Hobbs, WSJ, 12 May 2021
• But the cold-lunch alternative doesn't have to mean unoriginal sandwiches, sad desk salads, or caving and eating out.
  — Alexa Tucker, SELF, 8 Aug. 2017
• Heft, who died in 2009, received a B- from an unimpressed teacher, who reportedly called the design unoriginal.
  — Claire Wolters, National Geographic, 14 June 2019
• Scott Sanchez, Kai’s coach, confirmed this unoriginal theory and added a key element.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• As more artists try to make it on the app, TikTok viewers have become increasingly vocal in their criticism of unoriginal music.
  — Morgan Sung, NBC News, 24 May 2022
• But the novel isn’t transphobic as much as sadly ill-considered and unoriginal.
  — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 16 June 2022
• These sentences aren’t flourishes of showoff; nothing unoriginal slips by in this flawless novel.
  — Randy Rosenthal, The Seattle Times, 2 Aug. 2018
• Due to the proliferation of social media, wedding styles can quickly feel overused, unoriginal, and even worse, dated.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2021
• The question hanging over this term is how the Court, which wants to appear as unoriginal as possible, will be affected by enacting so many transformations.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2022
• Stay-at-home dad jokes are misogynistic and unoriginal.
  — Jay Deitcher, Parents, 12 June 2023
• Though George Miller, the auteur behind the Mad Max series, used the freedom of animation to do all kinds of sweeping camerawork that would’ve been impossible in real life, the cutesy plotting was pat and unoriginal.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 May 2020
• With the case closed, Torres apologies to Parker for accidentally complaining about him in a public post on the new app, and Parker proves himself to be a chill boss, critiquing Torres for unoriginal language.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2021
• The fat person/farm animal comparison is apparently one of the most hilarious jokes of all time and not at all unoriginal.
  — Marie Southard Ospina, refinery29.com, 25 Feb. 2020
• Sheriffs and district attorneys lodged unoriginal complaints, such as no longer being able to use the threat of harsher felony charges and longer prison sentences to persuade offenders to enter drug treatment programs.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024