uncreative

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Recent Examples of uncreative If a business has been operating with loose controls and has been allowing creativity to be deployed against uncreative things, then stop. Megan Poinski, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025 Like, for instance, this film is made using a very primitive and uncreative mise en scene. Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 Closed, communist societies, such as the Soviet Union, had shown themselves to be too uncreative and unproductive to compete economically and militarily with liberal states. Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2014 That being said, the chorus is a bit uncreative and repetitive. Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 22 July 2024 Upgraded felt stale, generic, and uncreative, and as a Brazilian-Colombian critic, that hurts. Want more? Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 11 Feb. 2024 Despite the ample evidence that A.I. could pose a threat to a handful of repetitive, uncreative roles, most workers aren’t shaken up—yet. Jane Thier, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2023 While this approach is exactly what has made TikTok such a success, Threads can choose an unfortunate, uncreative mix of posts. Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 13 July 2023 His style was a relatively uncreative, but decidedly popular mix of not-quite-rapping and not-quite-singing. Joshua Medintz, The Enquirer, 5 July 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncreative
Adjective
  • Strict and unimaginative gender norms were alive and well, and Weight Watchers was for the ladies (calories, of course, have no gender.
    John DeVore, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2025
  • These hotels are, at their worst, sites of literal death, and at best, gilded cages for the unimaginative.
    Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The idea may be just as unoriginal as florals for spring.
    Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The writing in general felt designed by committee to be as inoffensive and unoriginal as possible.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • To call it uninspired play is an unfair assessment.
    Baltimore Sun staff, Baltimore Sun, 21 Mar. 2025
  • This is also a dimension in short supply that can be easily eroded by people lacking transcendence – being unthankful, unimaginative, short-sighted, uninspired, pessimistic, and directionless.
    Mary Crossan, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • But for years, eight or nine of the roughly 10 sketches each week have been expected, uninventive, rote duds.
    Zak Jason, Wired, 21 May 2021
  • The earnest but uninventive special suffers from a lack of electrifying performances that have defined past ceremonies, with rousing crowd favorites and inspired team-ups between inductees and newer artists.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2020

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“Uncreative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncreative. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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