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Recent Examples of uninventive
But for years, eight or nine of the roughly 10 sketches each week have been expected, uninventive, rote duds.
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Zak Jason, Wired, 21 May 2021
The earnest but uninventive special suffers from a lack of electrifying performances that have defined past ceremonies, with rousing crowd favorites and inspired team-ups between inductees and newer artists.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2020
Celebrity cameos are generally a safe bet, but Chrissy Teigen and John Legend's commercial for the luxury car brand Genesis reminded us of how uninventive the tactic can be.
—Author: Maura Judkis, Sonia Rao, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2020
Celebrity cameos are generally a safe bet, but Chrissy Teigen and John Legend’s commercial for the luxury car brand Genesis reminded us of how uninventive the tactic can be.
—Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2020
Nonetheless, once again, the passing was slow, sloppy and uninventive.
—SI.com, 3 Oct. 2019
Zak Jason, Wired, 21 May 2021
The earnest but uninventive special suffers from a lack of electrifying performances that have defined past ceremonies, with rousing crowd favorites and inspired team-ups between inductees and newer artists.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2020
Celebrity cameos are generally a safe bet, but Chrissy Teigen and John Legend's commercial for the luxury car brand Genesis reminded us of how uninventive the tactic can be.
—Author: Maura Judkis, Sonia Rao, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2020
Celebrity cameos are generally a safe bet, but Chrissy Teigen and John Legend’s commercial for the luxury car brand Genesis reminded us of how uninventive the tactic can be.
—Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2020
Nonetheless, once again, the passing was slow, sloppy and uninventive.
—SI.com, 3 Oct. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uninventive
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The book will therefore appear January 14 (following a leak that rocked the publishing world), scarcely a month after Francis’s 88th birthday, under the appropriate if slightly unimaginative title Hope.airmail.news, airmail.news, 11 Jan. 2025
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From the interviewer’s perspective, a candidate with no questions can come across as disinterested, unprepared, or—worse—unimaginative.Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
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Closed, communist societies, such as the Soviet Union, had shown themselves to be too uncreative and unproductive to compete economically and militarily with liberal states.Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2014
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That being said, the chorus is a bit uncreative and repetitive.Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 22 July 2024
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Dell may be making its laptop names boring and unoriginal, but the new Dell Pro 14 Premium is keeping things exciting with the addition of a punchy tandem OLED display.Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 6 Jan. 2025
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For the rest of us, though, the main lesson of Mufasa is a far less generative one: Even the most talented director can’t make someone else’s unoriginal idea shine.Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2024
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So who distinguished themselves at the ballot box in 2024, and who turned in an uninspired performance?Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2025
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But heroism from LaVine and Coby White (19 points, 5 assists) couldn’t offset a dreadful first half of haphazard ball handling and uninspired defense.Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025
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