as in uninspiring
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Recent Examples of unexciting
The variety and talk spaces are, to put it frankly, some of the most stale and unexciting parts of the TV landscape.
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Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 17 July 2024
He’s accumulated just under 1500 major league plate appearances, posting an acceptable but unexciting 97 wRC+.
—Tony Blengino, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
Humor hasn’t generally been director Eli Roth’s strong suit, but neither is the constant bang-kapow of gunfire, explosions and violence in this stale and stubbornly unexciting sci-fi action comedy.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024
Starmer is a bit of a cypher, his platform this campaign has often been vague or unexciting, and the British public is decidedly lukewarm on him as a figure.
—Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 5 July 2024
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Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 17 July 2024
He’s accumulated just under 1500 major league plate appearances, posting an acceptable but unexciting 97 wRC+.
—Tony Blengino, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
Humor hasn’t generally been director Eli Roth’s strong suit, but neither is the constant bang-kapow of gunfire, explosions and violence in this stale and stubbornly unexciting sci-fi action comedy.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024
Starmer is a bit of a cypher, his platform this campaign has often been vague or unexciting, and the British public is decidedly lukewarm on him as a figure.
—Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 5 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unexciting
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The report took into account living standards, cultural environment, housing, infrastructure, air quality and other features that can make a city either an attractive or uninspiring place to live.Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 4 Dec. 2024
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Nearly every contender in the league is eager to land an additional top-four capable defender and the supply of potentially available trade targets is both meagre and somewhat uninspiring.Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
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Automation enables human workers to opt out of repetitive tasks that are physically taxing but otherwise unrewarding.Massimo Bizzi, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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The 10 wave playlist mode is boring, short and unrewarding.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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Mommy did not travel all the way to Montreal in the frigid tundra to be passive and uninteresting.Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2024
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At conventions, she was relegated to uninteresting panels.Meghan Herbst, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2024
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But to play to that dichotomy is a tightrope walk: lean too far one way and Indy becomes boring, either as too normal or a superhero.Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2024
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Eggnog Eggnog is a hard sell because most people have only had the bad kind, those boring and occasionally gross cartons that line the dairy section of the supermarket every December.Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 9 Dec. 2024
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At the far extreme, there is the insipid libertarianism of Ron Paul, the former Texas representative, who has claimed that Marine detachments guarding U.S. embassies count as examples of military overstretch.Bret Stephens, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2013
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The blandly positive lyrics seemed even more insipid amid all the bedroom jams.Eric Webb, Austin American-Statesman, 1 June 2024
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Used appropriately, these features can make your presentation dynamic and keep it from feeling monotonous and boring.William Arruda, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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This oversized pullover has large horizontal stripes that break up the often monotonous style of a traditional knit sweater.Michelle Rostamian, People.com, 14 Oct. 2024
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But the most sinister aspect of the movie, to me, is how banal its serial rapists are—how corny and ineffectual, these cringeworthy failsons.Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2024
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Both projects share a similar eye for the grotesquerie of the banal, with a generally condescending perspective toward rural desperation.Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2024
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The answer is quite simple but hardly not satisfying: His players are bland.Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 11 Dec. 2024
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My only real complaint is that, apart from the weapons, the mecha looked like they were designed by a committee and were a bit bland.Ollie Barder, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Unexciting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unexciting. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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