unathletic

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Recent Examples of unathletic Hopelessly unathletic and bad at sports, Sandy felt alienated by his family his entire life. Joe Otterson, Variety, 1 Feb. 2024 Researchers found that, over the course of an academic year, middle schoolers grew increasingly unpopular and more likely to misuse alcohol if they were considered unattractive and unathletic, and that such shortcomings are no longer seen as gender-specific. Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023 The outfit was far cry from a soccer uniform, and aside from the shoes themselves, an unathletic ensemble. Megan O'Sullivan, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2023 The romantic comedy tells the body-empowerment story of notoriously unathletic Whitney Carmichael, played by Rachel Boudwin, who begins to fall for her off-limits personal trainer, Axel (Tanner), after signing up for an intense summer boot camp to reinvent herself. Todd Spangler, Variety, 18 Oct. 2022 See All Example Sentences for unathletic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unathletic
Adjective
  • These individuals—who meet all military requirements, are deployed worldwide, and serve with distinction—are now labeled unfit based on a characteristic that has nothing to do with their abilities or performance.
    Carlos Del Toro, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
  • When the Gulf War broke out in 1990, many staffers resisted covering it at all, deeming it a jingoistic exercise unfit for media participation.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • That relationship is given much more attention than the few mostly feeble and surface-level attempts at explaining teens today, despite what the series’ title might suggest.
    Shannon Keating, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Despite the feeble denials from the rare Republicans who dare face town hall meetings now, their budget outline also necessitates steep cuts in Medicaid, a safety net for 72 million Americans.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • This included industrialization, and, with it, the conception of leisure as a way of allowing people to recuperate from work with a temporary escape from the ugly, unhealthy atmosphere of the city.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 23 Mar. 2025
  • While this is great for Chalamet, Soderbergh isn’t sure whether this has set an unhealthy expectation in the industry that young talent have to bring star power with them to a project instead of the project helping these actors rise in stature.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, on the other hand, viewed one another as rivals as much as allies, and their competitive and uncoordinated efforts consistently backfired.
    Marc Lynch, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2018
  • Contracts for SaaS products go uncoordinated, with separate agencies paying higher prices despite discounts available through collaborative purchases.
    Eric Steele, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • A far cry from the gawky and boyish Norman Bates, B.Z. is a floppy-haired, closeted Hollywood player slowly dissolving in his own nihilism.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
  • As Andy Kaufman, Nicholas Braun has just the right gawky awkwardness, and his brief, odd, mostly silent appearances in the first half of the film delightfully pay off near the climax.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • Examples imported from 1975 through 1985 had rather ungainly impact bumpers, so early, chrome-bumper cars are aesthetically more desirable.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2025
  • You're locked into an ungainly, spread armed, weak kneed Character: snowplow.
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Murena Pixel Tablet And Third-Party Apps The ecosystem for Android tablets is weaker than that of Android smartphones.
    Ewan Spence, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Cleanup crews noted the tree’s root system was very weak.
    Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • His rapping has a frail, slithering quality; his vocal tone morphs between cute squeakiness and ragged rottweiler growls.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2025
  • In our grandparents’ day, families weren’t dispersed across the country, and family members often took care of their frail relatives.
    Steve Vernon, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025

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“Unathletic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unathletic. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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