as in commonplace
not very good or clever; not inspired
She gave an uninspired performance. The menu was uninspired.
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Recent Examples of uninspired
Companies that fail to cultivate curiosity often experience stagnation, where employees feel uninspired and disconnected from their work, increasing the likelihood of attrition.
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Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Thoughtless, uninspired new apartments and houses are sucking the soul out of our communities.
—Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
With both wrestlers imminently departing the company, a palpable lack of enthusiasm permeated the match, resulting in a sluggish, uninspired affair.
—Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
The designs in Doom: The Dark Ages feel uninspired.
—Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
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Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Thoughtless, uninspired new apartments and houses are sucking the soul out of our communities.
—Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
With both wrestlers imminently departing the company, a palpable lack of enthusiasm permeated the match, resulting in a sluggish, uninspired affair.
—Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
The designs in Doom: The Dark Ages feel uninspired.
—Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uninspired
Adjective
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VanDerveer doesn’t expect Stanford to be in the running for prospects demanding high seven-figure salaries, which has become commonplace in the SEC and Big Ten.—
Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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By early evening, with the sun sinking and power still out for most of Spain and Portugal, camaraderie became commonplace.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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At this point in the Trump show, the famously unpredictable president seems to be following a script as tired as any other long-running, low-brow procedural.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
5 May 2025
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He’s grown tired of being optioned back and forth from the minor leagues.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
Adjective
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No more boring, irrelevant training modules—this is learning at the speed of work.—
Lisa Bodell,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Some of this may happen under cover of darkness, but much of it happens in the open, under cover of arcane technocracy or boring bureaucracy.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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But in the Sacramento region, most drinkers still associate chenin blanc with its sweet, unimaginative predecessors.—
Benjy Egel,
Sacbee.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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There are narrative tropes, flat characters and unimaginative enemies everywhere.—
Christopher rd,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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In one new academic paper, an AI model was able to predict whether a cancer patient is at risk of developing wasting disease better than conventional methods.—
Alex Knapp,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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Such an admission not only upsets the conventional framing of the war, but strikes at the very heart of the Vietnamese Communist Party’s own legitimacy to govern the country.—
Made by History,
Time,
30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The house is typical of the modest cottages built in the area, with a front gable and adjacent porch over the main entry.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 May 2025
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But changing the culture so that messages are confined to typical business hours can reinforce the message that employees have off hours.—
Adia Harvey Wingfield,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
Adjective
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Thus, if a general receiver for the debtor-member then the receiver may exercise all rights possessed by the debtor-member, including voting to make distributions, dissolve the LLC or bring a derivative lawsuit to force distributions to be made.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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Story’s graph structure enables automatic derivative tracking.—
Gary Weinstein,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Jam-packed with his absurd self-aware humor, the finale deviates from the show’s usual slapstick raunch with a rare tender moment between Jesse and his equally crude siblings, Judy (Edi Patterson) and Kelvin (Adam DeVine).—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
4 May 2025
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Our usual supplier, China, has banned exports of REMs to the U.S.—
Paul Bedard,
The Washington Examiner,
3 May 2025
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“Uninspired.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uninspired. Accessed 11 May. 2025.
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