as in unadventurous
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unenterprising
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The team became a kind of lazy shorthand for tastefully unadventurous filmmaking, and unfairly so.Keith Phipps, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2024
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Our children are unadventurous eaters.Damon Young, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2022
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Shy and unassertive, she’s often been overlooked by others and kept to herself.Yasmine AlSayyad, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
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After a time, Patterson’s play-it-down-the-middle approach feels less like the remembrances of a Renaissance man and more like evasive, unassertive hedging.Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 6 June 2022
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But when the homework clause was revealed, the enormous unsocial media fan was out there and the manure hit it with great force.Nick CanepaColumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2022
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The choice of verbs on social media seems, to Miss Manners, to demonstrate a decidedly unsocial intent.Washington Post, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2022
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Phan said in addition to feeling embarrassed by all of the applause, Wudtke was shocked.Stephanie Gallman Jordan, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2024
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The Chicago Bears, one week after a brutal Hail Mary loss to the Washington Commanders, were embarrassed by the Arizona Cardinals (5-4) in a 29-9 defeat.Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024
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Ask Amy: My unsociable neighbor doesn't know about me and his wife.Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 2 June 2024
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To drink too much would be inexcusable; to drink too little would be unsociable.Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
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Screaming and antisocial behavior may not seem like beloved traits, but these penguins are revered in Māori culture as taonga, or treasure, even gracing the country’s $5 bill.Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
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The biggest concern, according to eugenicists, was that these antisocial tendencies were inborn—that genes for crime and poverty were being smuggled into the country in the blood of immigrants.Arthur Caplan, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024
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As people have become self-conscious of their digital image, video studio designers, MCs, virtual background designers, and even plastic surgeons have found thriving new avenues for their businesses.thehustle.co, thehustle.co, 1 Nov. 2024
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Berger made a cacophonous, confusing mess of the anti-war classic All Quiet on the Western Front back in 2022, and mistook its profound statements about the toll of conflict as an excuse for self-conscious seriousness drenched in bloody sturm-und-drang spectacle.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2024
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“Unenterprising.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unenterprising. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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