How to Use uncharismatic in a Sentence
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Who would subscribe to the videos these uncharismatic guys are making?
—John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2022
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Poe, Rey and Finn- the new heroes we're supposed to fall in love with - are uncharismatic and bland.
—Julie Washington, cleveland.com, 12 Dec. 2017
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Mandy is overenergetic and performs by-the-book drag choreo, with an uncharismatic vocal performance on her verse.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2026
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This isn’t helped by the lack of chemistry between the two leads—and note should be made of how impressively uncharismatic Jang is as Gwi-ju.
—Geoffrey Bunting, TIME, 12 June 2024
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There’s also something icky about her ardor for Leto’s uncharismatic Joker.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
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The Hoosier cavefish joins a small club of uncharismatic animals named for university mascots.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2014
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An uncharismatic leader is therefore more likely to appear restrained, flat, subdued, or low-energy.
—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
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His ornate exchanges envelop us, and his words have an uncanny ability to turn even uncharismatic actors into momentary stars.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 May 2021
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My memories are of a distinctly uncharismatic, warehouse-y building bathed in pallid fluorescent light.
—Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2022
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The country needed a leader and much of the public and news media found it in the gruff, uncharismatic, and perfidious form of Andrew Cuomo.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2021
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Tepid ticket sales have led to speculation that perhaps the uncharismatic performance of Ansel Elgort in the role of Tony brought the production down.
—Adario Strange, Quartz, 17 Dec. 2021
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The next British government is likely to test whether an intelligent and committed but uncharismatic politician who just wants to get on with practical problem-solving can succeed in the modern world.
—Tom Baldwin, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
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The current leader, Keir Starmer, is widely regarded as competent but uncharismatic, and has made solid but unspectacular progress.
—Megan Specia, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022
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Rather than painting an emotionally compelling future, uncharismatic leaders may emphasize plans, facts, processes, trade-offs and incremental improvements.
—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
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Making his film debut, Richie Merritt plays Rick as a sullen, evidently stupid and certainly uncharismatic schemer in possession of a modicum of animal cunning and perhaps a hint of personal insight.
—John Anderson, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018
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As Melvin Purvis, the Fed assigned to take down John Dillinger (Johnny Depp), Bale is assigned the tricky task of playing a decidedly uncharismatic fellow.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2026
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So the archetype of an uncharismatic leader is not necessarily someone unlikeable, introverted, socially incompetent or ineffective.
—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
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The uncharismatic leader is more likely to qualify, deliberate, acknowledge uncertainty and resist dramatizing the situation.
—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
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The uncharismatic leader may be less inspiring but more measured; less visionary but more realistic; less emotionally contagious but calmer; less certain but better calibrated; less interested in attention but more interested in execution.
—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
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The sometimes impetuous Nasser and the reserved and uncharismatic Hasan al-Hudaybi, the Brotherhood’s general guide (the top official) at this time, grew to hate each other in the years immediately following the revolution.
—Shadi Hamid, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2018
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Summary Common perception equates effective leadership with charisma, often ignoring competent but uncharismatic individuals.
—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
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