as in unglamorous
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Recent Examples of unexotic
Even on a dusty tarmac with the car riding on decidedly unexotic Michelin Pilot Sport 4S summer tires (the same rubber that was used to set its official 0–60 and quarter-mile times), the Nevera leapt off the line without a hint of wheelspin.
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Bradley Iger, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2022
Benefit’s popular cherry-red Benetint started life in 1976 as a nipple stain made for exotic dancers out of rose petals and carmine and later commercialized for the unexotic rest of us.
—Linda Wells, Town & Country, 16 Apr. 2021
Bradley Iger, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2022
Benefit’s popular cherry-red Benetint started life in 1976 as a nipple stain made for exotic dancers out of rose petals and carmine and later commercialized for the unexotic rest of us.
—Linda Wells, Town & Country, 16 Apr. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unexotic
Adjective
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Created by Democrats, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, of Massachusetts, in the wake of the Great Recession, the CFPB lodged steady but largely unglamorous wins for consumers.—
Rob Wile,
NBC News,
12 Feb. 2025
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Then, as now, the real work of reform was done in large part from the ground up, via the creation of unglamorous organizations like local Rotary Clubs, which, as the political scientist Robert Putnam has pointed out, amassed enormous social capital for progressive causes by . . .—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Unforgiven recasts the genre as a pitiless, almost pathologically unromantic realm populated by twits hoping to make their name and aged gunslingers who have to make peace with their bad pasts.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
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The imagination can’t be bothered with unromantic minutiae.—
Kevin Chroust,
Outside Online,
5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The president's order will direct McMahon to take all necessary steps permitted by law to dissolve department, according to the sources familiar.—
Arthur Jones II,
ABC News,
20 Mar. 2025
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Sanchez went on to deliver his familiar mixed bag of erratic distribution and impressive saves at the Emirates Stadium.—
Liam Twomey,
The Athletic,
20 Mar. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Unexotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unexotic. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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