unexciting

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Recent Examples of unexciting 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 Read more Related Articles Iran Iran’s clerics urged an unenthusiastic public to vote in today’s unexciting parliamentary elections. Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 1 Mar. 2024 But that user growth could be sustained only by the technology’s transition into something unexciting. Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2024 Despite having spent his entire adult life in the public eye, he is measured, analytical, and almost intentionally unexciting. Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for unexciting 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unexciting
Adjective
  • The hackers indicted this week worked in an uninspiring office block in Guangdong province.
    Matt Burgess, WIRED, 23 July 2020
  • Deshaun Watson has been on the hot seat for his uninspiring quarterback play for the Cleveland Browns and new lawsuits filed against him.
    Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 8 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • The 10 wave playlist mode is boring, short and unrewarding.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Some or all of the Arab countries involved would likely demand that Israel halt settlement expansion on the West Bank or make other concessions to the Palestinians as the price of their participation in a difficult and unrewarding mission.
    Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
Adjective
  • Even a feature-length version of this plot would likely struggle with its lack of ideas, but 10 half-hour episodes feel punishing, well before a finale that offers an uninteresting explanation of the main mystery, and can’t even be bothered to resolve several other running plot threads.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
  • But the color work on the series isn’t just about pulling off the tricks that every DP would like to make a TV show look a little more appealing — darkening uninteresting blank spaces within a frame, making the color consistent between shots, and smoothing out any variables in the lighting.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 29 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • Most of this long flashback segment is pretty boring, though.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Toyota and Honda have at times been called boring: Honda by its own engineers, Toyota more famously by a chairman descended from the company’s founder.
    Robert Ferris, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Sometimes the video was insipid, but that hardly mattered.
    David Rowell, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Final flourishes offer confusion: Kora confronts a giant Kali statue (Hindu myth replicating the insipid Issa ideal).
    Armond White, National Review, 9 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • Having different roles and environments keeps work fresh and engaging, helping reduce the risk of job burnout from monotonous routines.
    William Arruda, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Really, how has this once monotonous job-working elections become dangerous in recent months?
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • For the lower 3-D level of fossils, the explanation of cause of death is much more banal: burrow collapse.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Every year, the United States welcomes hundreds of thousands of new citizens in naturalization ceremonies that manage to be both banal and deeply moving.
    Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Early Turning Point memes read as though the organization had hired a Popsicle-stick-joke writer to make bland, conservative-minded witticisms.
    Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The Casserole Is Bland Another one of the most common green bean casserole mistakes is to choose a recipe that’s a bit too simple, which can result in a bland dish.
    Jill Schildhouse, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2024

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“Unexciting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unexciting. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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