as in unexciting
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Recent Examples of unrewarding
Some or all of the Arab countries involved would likely demand that Israel halt settlement expansion on the West Bank or make other concessions to the Palestinians as the price of their participation in a difficult and unrewarding mission.
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Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
Cerebral men of letters often make unrewarding screen protagonists, spending too much time in their own heads to fully engage as characters.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
But if long Covid is really a form of ME/CFS, this approach will likely be unrewarding.
—Steven Phillips, STAT, 14 Sep. 2023
Baseball is a cruel, often unrewarding, game of inches.
—Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 10 June 2023
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Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
Cerebral men of letters often make unrewarding screen protagonists, spending too much time in their own heads to fully engage as characters.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
But if long Covid is really a form of ME/CFS, this approach will likely be unrewarding.
—Steven Phillips, STAT, 14 Sep. 2023
Baseball is a cruel, often unrewarding, game of inches.
—Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 10 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrewarding
Adjective
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Economists were expecting Wednesday’s report to be fairly unexciting, with barely any change from December’s data.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN,
12 Feb. 2025
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Performance looks unexciting and the range is more like EVs from four years ago, making this more of a city or suburban runaround with commuting capabilities, rather than the car for that family holiday road trip.—
James Morris,
Forbes,
7 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Dallas owner Jerry Jones doesn’t strike confidence in his fan base, especially with this week’s uninspiring hire of Brian Schottenheimer.—
Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
8 Feb. 2025
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Reinsdorf surely knew any negative fan reaction the Bulls would receive for an uninspiring haul for LaVine would pale in comparison with the pounding the Mavericks were taking for dealing Dončić in his prime.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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With a film in which the protagonist is largely confined to a cleaning platform, the challenge becomes less about spatial clarity and more about finding ways to keep things from getting tedious.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
21 Feb. 2025
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The Americans were prepared for a lecture from Russia’s longtime foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, who is well known for his tedious harangues.—
Michael Crowley,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Activities were repetitive or uninteresting, new bosses were built around individual characters which was a poor format.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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The girls game was rather one-sided and uninteresting.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Harris, the narrator’s husband: Paul Mescal or Nick Kroll Can Ireland's sexiest chain-wearer reinvent himself as a boring straight guy who's not entirely fulfilling his wife?—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2025
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From awful ads to a divisive halftime show to a boring game, 10 things to forget.—
Brad Biggs,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Much of our modern architecture is monotonous, repetitive and without character.—
Kay Johnson,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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What seemed like innovative movement mechanics in 3D is stifled by repetitive, confusing level design with its monotonous mazes.—
Joel Thayer,
Newsweek,
26 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Now, with Valentine’s Day just around the corner and a slew of singles who are similarly fatigued with endless swiping, hookup culture and tiresome first dates, a proliferation of alternatives are starting to pop up.—
Emily Burns,
WWD,
11 Feb. 2025
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That was a core part of the original series and the sibling rivalry stuff can get tiresome pretty quickly.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The thundering poet termed the result uninspired and banal, so the other professor went into Dickinson’s 1,800-poem corpus, retrieved an obscure quatrain and presented it to the poet, who called the result banal and uninspired.—
David Galef,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Feb. 2025
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Seeking Clues in Cabinet Cards The poignant images, at once banal and intimate, in the Lynch Family Photographs Collection contain mysteries perhaps only the public can solve.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Unrewarding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrewarding. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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