as in boring
causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest
the tour guide's spiel was uninteresting and not particularly informative
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Recent Examples of uninteresting
As hot, momentum deals rule the headlines, founders with a unique social and technological insight will figure out how to make venture capital work for them, even in industries historically uninteresting to VC.
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Ruth Foxe Blader, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
In terms of doing something with a modern-day Trump, there’s also just something dramatically uninteresting about his current mental state; there’s no change.
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2024
Instead of uninteresting surf art hanging on walls, magnificently designed Douglas Evan surfboards hang over beds.
—Noah Lederman, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2024
Popular on Variety Ramchandani’s baffling screenplay contains the most obvious, stock archetypes of people recurrent in Hollywood’s uninteresting depictions of Latino communities.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024
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Ruth Foxe Blader, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
In terms of doing something with a modern-day Trump, there’s also just something dramatically uninteresting about his current mental state; there’s no change.
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2024
Instead of uninteresting surf art hanging on walls, magnificently designed Douglas Evan surfboards hang over beds.
—Noah Lederman, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2024
Popular on Variety Ramchandani’s baffling screenplay contains the most obvious, stock archetypes of people recurrent in Hollywood’s uninteresting depictions of Latino communities.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uninteresting
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If films like Nosferatu don’t find a wide audience and thrive in the marketplace, cinema faces a very bland, boring future.Scott Phillips, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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Either way, the winter garden is anything but boring.Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2024
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As for food, those tiring of tagine may be glad of the West African restaurants tucked away within the medina.Elle Benson Easton, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2024
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That eliminates long, tiring road transfers, and allows more time in the bush.Holden Frith, The Week UK, theweek, 26 Oct. 2024
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From designing cutting-edge medical devices to building electric vehicles in the factory of the future—using robots, AI, VR, automation and more—manufacturing is anything but dull.Ethan Karp, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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Or just a dull roar, bellowing 93 million miles away?Harri Weber, Popular Science, 19 Dec. 2024
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The Boke character, which would be Johnson, is the one who will make a mistake on purpose, or make a stupid joke.Justin Koreis, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2024
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Any Republican that would be so stupid as to do this should, and will, be Primaried.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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The Wi-Fi will always be slow and the gossip will always be fast.Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2024
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Snow has been slow to arrive in Big Bear this year, but the long-term forecast calls for big changes.Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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Perhaps the most striking comes from the Baltimore Experience Corps trial, a large experiment in which adults age 60 and older were randomly assigned to either volunteer at elementary schools or be put on a waiting list.Maria Godoy, NPR, 25 Dec. 2024
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The show skips across the decades, dramatizing the interviews an older Dolours (Maxine Peake) did for a Boston College oral history of the Troubles, which were taped with the promise that they would be released only after participants’ deaths.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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Poor Ventilation Along with the increase in moisture and humidity, another leading cause for a dusty bathroom is poor ventilation.Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 17 Dec. 2024
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And some days, its dusty air carries the stench of the polluted Salton Sea eight miles west.Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
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In 2006, the company reportedly sold a hundred thousand cases, but demand ran dry and Waterkeepers grew weary.Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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In both cases, the Lakers could receive enough assets to begin a rebuilding project that their weary fans would surely support.Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Uninteresting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uninteresting. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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