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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
Adjective
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The firm is smart, if also unimaginative, to highlight competition with China — which is indeed bipartisan, though likely to be managed very differently by the incoming administration.Johanna Costigan, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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Sometimes, the genre becomes an excuse for amateurish or unimaginative filmmaking.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 30 July 2024
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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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As the sun and Saturn clash, confront what scares you: a fear of being unoriginal.USA TODAY, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024
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Good, if often unoriginal design, sold at a competitive price.Alistair Charlton, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2024
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This year, Spotify Wrapped has been savaged by its own users for its uninspired presentation and a lack of personalization.Brady Brickner-Wood, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2024
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Viewers resistant to a landslide of scatological humor, however, may find the laughs pretty slim in this overlong, uninspired monster spoof.Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Uninventive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uninventive. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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