unchallenging
adjective
un·chal·leng·ing
ˌən-ˈcha-lən-jiŋ 
1
: not presenting interesting difficulties or challenges : not challenging
found the work unchallenging
2
: not expressing or marked by doubt : unquestioning
an unchallenging acceptance of official instruction
unchallengingly
adverb
Examples of unchallenging in a Sentence
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Yet the Sonata begins with seven bars of technically unchallenging music, which anyone who reads notation can manage.
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Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
Worse, that unchallenging, jokey tone undercuts the intriguing psychodrama at the play’s core.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2023
More pressingly, the writing, intent on remaining lightly comic and knowing, keeps delivering what is familiar and unchallenging.
—Vulture, 10 Aug. 2023
The unfairness of an economic system that could just as easily have relegated her to a lifetime of unchallenging work and undiscovered abilities sharpened her moral mission.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
Given his star power, the deliberately old-school, unchallenging nature of the storytelling, and the fact that Netflix has had some big hits of late in this general territory like The Night Agent and The Diplomat, and FUBAR seems poised to join them.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2023
Other analysts, though, said that the U.A.E. was high on Iran’s list of enemies and that the embassy in Ethiopia might present an unchallenging target at a time when Ethiopia is distracted by a war that has been raging in its northern Tigray region since November.
—New York Times, 15 Feb. 2021
This soft, sweet love song sees the indie singer-songwriter falling head over heels, accompanied by an unchallenging, gorgeous melody.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 17 Feb. 2023
It’s a pleasantly unchallenging expansion of the family-friendship-loyalty worldview that Bouchard and the Belchers have made their own.
—Vulture, 27 May 2022
Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
Worse, that unchallenging, jokey tone undercuts the intriguing psychodrama at the play’s core.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2023
More pressingly, the writing, intent on remaining lightly comic and knowing, keeps delivering what is familiar and unchallenging.
—Vulture, 10 Aug. 2023
The unfairness of an economic system that could just as easily have relegated her to a lifetime of unchallenging work and undiscovered abilities sharpened her moral mission.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
Given his star power, the deliberately old-school, unchallenging nature of the storytelling, and the fact that Netflix has had some big hits of late in this general territory like The Night Agent and The Diplomat, and FUBAR seems poised to join them.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2023
Other analysts, though, said that the U.A.E. was high on Iran’s list of enemies and that the embassy in Ethiopia might present an unchallenging target at a time when Ethiopia is distracted by a war that has been raging in its northern Tigray region since November.
—New York Times, 15 Feb. 2021
This soft, sweet love song sees the indie singer-songwriter falling head over heels, accompanied by an unchallenging, gorgeous melody.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 17 Feb. 2023
It’s a pleasantly unchallenging expansion of the family-friendship-loyalty worldview that Bouchard and the Belchers have made their own.
—Vulture, 27 May 2022
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First Known Use
1817, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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