unimpressive

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Recent Examples of unimpressive The rest of the National League has been largely unimpressive. Dennis Lin, The Athletic, 1 Aug. 2024 Mid Adjective Mediocre, unimpressive, or disappointing. Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024 In the two practices that followed, Watson was generally inconsistent and unimpressive. Zac Jackson, The Athletic, 10 Aug. 2024 Most of my roommates were and are artists with unimpressive salaries. Lola Milholland, TIME, 3 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for unimpressive 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unimpressive
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Schmidt’s unemotional and seemingly effortless style of play did not sit well with the fans.
    John Perrotto, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Limit your responses to concrete, unemotional facts while maintaining a professional, neutral attitude.
    Veronica Cristino, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Chapter 1: The Rise of Scribe Media Scribe Media started in 2014 as the humbler, niche-sounding Book in a Box.
    Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Just a few steps up the hill is a humble boulangerie that punches far above its weight; Le Fornil de Mon Père has been making bread and pastries in the area for eight decades.
    Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The artist himself, however, was rather more unprepossessing.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The bishop has an amiable, unprepossessing manner, with a slight stoop and a twinkly smile.
    Nathaniel Rich Stacy Kranitz, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
Adjective
  • Writers’ obsessions can illuminate their subjects in ways that more dispassionate approaches can’t.
    Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2024
  • David Hume chimed in, two centuries later, to argue that judgments of right and wrong emanate from emotion and social conditioning, not the dispassionate application of reason.
    Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • Sam Darnold and the Vikings offense was mediocre until the late stages of the third quarter, and that was not the way to respond after the Lions lost to the Bills.
    Steve Silverman, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • This move is a clear indication that Chicago is looking to win in 2025 rather than repeat the mediocre season from 2024.
    Zach Pressnell, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The series cited, among other things, Burke's seemingly emotionless demeanor during police questioning, which legal analyst Scott Robinson and the Boulder Police both told PEOPLE was not evidence whatsoever of his guilt.
    Jessica Sager, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Hilariously, one of the trailers hints at a possible flirtation between Peter and Gillan’s seemingly emotionless killer Nebula.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2023
Adjective
  • Kittle noted that Samuel’s modest stat line against Chicago wasn’t due to a lack of effort but because of scheme.
    Matt Barrows, The Athletic, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Macquarie's latest estimates are for demand to slow from an earlier forecast of 3.4% a year to 2.4% while supply is also expected to slip, though the supply fall from 5.4% to 4% will still leave the copper market in modest surplus.
    Tim Treadgold, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024

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“Unimpressive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unimpressive. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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