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Recent Examples of unadventurous
The team became a kind of lazy shorthand for tastefully unadventurous filmmaking, and unfairly so.
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Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
Alas, while the comics themselves have prominence on-screen in their static form, the doc remains a proficient, engaging portrait, but an unadventurous one.
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Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
25 Feb. 2025
My navy blazer, white shirt and khakis would otherwise have felt rather staid and unadventurous (at least for me), but the texture, color, and patina of my polo belt felt apropos.
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Todd Plummer,
Robb Report,
6 Nov. 2024
Our children are unadventurous eaters.
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Damon Young,
Washington Post,
19 Dec. 2022
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Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
Alas, while the comics themselves have prominence on-screen in their static form, the doc remains a proficient, engaging portrait, but an unadventurous one.
—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
25 Feb. 2025
My navy blazer, white shirt and khakis would otherwise have felt rather staid and unadventurous (at least for me), but the texture, color, and patina of my polo belt felt apropos.
—
Todd Plummer,
Robb Report,
6 Nov. 2024
Our children are unadventurous eaters.
—
Damon Young,
Washington Post,
19 Dec. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unadventurous
Adjective
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This film, so seemingly unassertive, apparently rambling and plotless, has a devastating impact and aftershock.
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Accommodating, which is unassertive and cooperative, prioritizes the needs and preferences of others over one’s own in order to maintain harmony.
Adjective
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Practically speaking, shoes are an easier, less expensive and fraught acquisition than clothes (few people are embarrassed by their shoe size).
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Larry David is pretty, pretty, pretty embarrassed right now.
Adjective
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To resent a rival is par for the course in the villa, but Toni and Shakira’s condemnations registered as truly antisocial.
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There were cartoon beavers everywhere, brisket sandwiches far better than any gas station should be able to produce, and a bar of jerky (and a wall of jerky next to it for the impatient or antisocial).
Adjective
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Especially now, during the daunting age of unsocial media.
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The choice of verbs on social media seems, to Miss Manners, to demonstrate a decidedly unsocial intent.
Adjective
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Hospitality fared well in Deputy’s study, making up half of the 10 happiest job sectors, despite the sector’s reputation for high stress, unsociable hours, and low pay.
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Ask Amy: My unsociable neighbor doesn't know about me and his wife.
Adjective
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Each composition, cut, and camera move is expressive and carefully selected, and the lighting by cinematographer Ellen Kuras is beautiful without feeling self-conscious or showy.
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And somewhere in South End, a Patagonia vest just got a little self-conscious.
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“Unadventurous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unadventurous. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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