as in unsexy
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Recent Examples of unerotic
The director Ninja Thyberg’s new film is graphic yet deeply unerotic.
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 May 2022
Holbein was sensitive but cautiously unerotic in picturing women, who are usually sombre.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
Surprisingly, McKay offers nothing more graphic than that rather unerotic image.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 May 2022
Holbein was sensitive but cautiously unerotic in picturing women, who are usually sombre.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
Surprisingly, McKay offers nothing more graphic than that rather unerotic image.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unerotic
Adjective
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The ideology behind this approach, to the extent that there was one, went by a particularly unsexy name: legalism.Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024
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Some of the changes needed to eradicate poverty are small, unsexy bureaucratic adjustments, like local zoning reforms in Lexington and elsewhere.Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Adjective
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Aside from a series of gruesome martyr scenes frescoed on the interior wall of the second ring in the late 16th century, the décor reflects late Imperial taste for decorous abstraction and costly materials.David Laskin, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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They’re totally fictionalized and, in their own way, the intrusive projections of what Morgan might’ve thought happened between the two, but what he’s imagined is decorous and dramatically unsatisfying.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 July 2024
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People on several continents were understandably pleased at the prospect of rule by this quiet, polite, diligent young man who had practiced eye surgery in London.Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 31 Dec. 2024
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Another delegate in the same small-group discussion said that the ideas got polite but forceful pushback.Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2024
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“Unerotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unerotic. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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