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Recent Examples of unrewarding
The drama stars Cici Wang as Monkey, a backstage theater worker facing unemployment after years of unrewarding work.
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
These plants are often altogether unrewarding for pollinators, since the flowers no longer produce nectar or pollen.
—Claire Therese Hemingway, The Conversation, 18 Aug. 2025
Quiet firing is when an employer deliberately makes a job so unrewarding, isolating or stagnant that the employee feels pressured to quit, rather than being formally terminated.
—Alora Bopray, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
Writing posts and connecting with people online can be unrewarding at first.
—Andrey Insarov, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
These plants are often altogether unrewarding for pollinators, since the flowers no longer produce nectar or pollen.
—Claire Therese Hemingway, The Conversation, 18 Aug. 2025
Quiet firing is when an employer deliberately makes a job so unrewarding, isolating or stagnant that the employee feels pressured to quit, rather than being formally terminated.
—Alora Bopray, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
Writing posts and connecting with people online can be unrewarding at first.
—Andrey Insarov, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrewarding
Adjective
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Reliability and consistency were her hallmarks—admirable qualities, but unexciting.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
24 May 2026
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Dull, unexciting fight scenes; just CGI monsters.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
Adjective
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Last year's Canadian Open was a birdie-fest and ball-knowers, aka golf course nerds, are dragging TPC Toronto, calling it lifeless and uninspiring.—
Geoff Clark OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
9 June 2026
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The at-bats were somewhat uninspiring.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
27 May 2026
Adjective
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Additionally, as part of the enhancements which come to other brands in the Creative Cloud suite there are new organizational capabilities, which can label folders usefully and gather relevant items into them, streamlining a tedious clean-up process.—
David Phelan,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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The Obama administration engaged in a tedious, 20-month long diplomatic negotiation.—
Justin Fishel,
ABC News,
18 June 2026
Adjective
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On the other hand, the statement is emblematic of the uninteresting vagueness of Spider-Noir‘s world-building.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2026
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The premise is uninteresting, and, worst of all, the jokes aren’t remotely funny.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Sometimes safe and boring can be a winning strategy.—
Nina Bambysheva,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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The cause can be something as simple as a lack of water or more complex, like fungal wilt diseases, tomato wilt viruses, walnut toxicity, or boring insects.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
17 June 2026
Adjective
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Her trick for making a scheme feel consistent but not monotonous?—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
5 June 2026
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But if couples stop introducing freshness into that stability, comfort will feel monotonous.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
Adjective
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But the biggest beef to be had is in Sarnoski’s insistence to bludgeon us with pulverizing violence, which grows tiresome and repetitive in the carnage-spewing initial 30 minutes.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
18 June 2026
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Crucially, this Bond is terrific, not tiresome.—
Jordan Minor,
PC Magazine,
1 June 2026
Adjective
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This is certainly true—and a rather banal truism.—
The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
16 June 2026
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Apparently the weather is just too banal.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
12 June 2026
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“Unrewarding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrewarding. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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