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Recent Examples of unadventurous
Our children are unadventurous eaters.
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Damon Young, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2022
The way de Montebello sees it, the next challenge is persuading the geographically unadventurous to make the trip uptown.
—Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 31 Dec. 2022
When asked to draw a picture of a flower that does not exist, monolingual children were fairly unadventurous, drawing perhaps a flower that was missing its leaves, or a flower with only one petal.
—Julie Sedivy, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2012
Sony hit its marks, delivering graphically impressive but otherwise unadventurous installments in their major series, and Nintendo shipped a suite of characteristically springy platformers and sports games.
—Clayton Purdom, Chron, 8 Dec. 2022
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Damon Young, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2022
The way de Montebello sees it, the next challenge is persuading the geographically unadventurous to make the trip uptown.
—Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 31 Dec. 2022
When asked to draw a picture of a flower that does not exist, monolingual children were fairly unadventurous, drawing perhaps a flower that was missing its leaves, or a flower with only one petal.
—Julie Sedivy, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2012
Sony hit its marks, delivering graphically impressive but otherwise unadventurous installments in their major series, and Nintendo shipped a suite of characteristically springy platformers and sports games.
—Clayton Purdom, Chron, 8 Dec. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unadventurous
Adjective
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Avoiding is unassertive and uncooperative, where an individual tends to give up on their own needs and acquiesce to the desires of others by disengaging from the situation altogether.—
Ellen Choi,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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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.—
Ellen Choi,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Most people are embarrassed to raise their voices in public and therefore equate it with being rude.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
18 June 2025
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Remembering this, Burnett shakes his head, embarrassed.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
14 June 2025
Adjective
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Behind the reluctance of some to relax the rule — or eliminate it altogether — is the fear of La Grange becoming like some Chicago suburbs that attract problems with antisocial behavior that can come with too many bars where patrons could get out of hand.—
Hank Beckman,
Chicago Tribune,
13 June 2025
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So Far New Order were the ultimate Eighties band: four antisocial kids who rose from the ashes of punk rock, dabbled in electro beats, then accidentally turned into global dance-floor innovators.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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But when the homework clause was revealed, the enormous unsocial media fan was out there and the manure hit it with great force.—
Nick CanepaColumnist,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 July 2022
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The choice of verbs on social media seems, to Miss Manners, to demonstrate a decidedly unsocial intent.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
6 Jan. 2022
Adjective
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Ask Amy: My unsociable neighbor doesn't know about me and his wife.—
Bay Area News Group,
The Mercury News,
2 June 2024
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To drink too much would be inexcusable; to drink too little would be unsociable.—
Erika Page,
The Christian Science Monitor,
2 Feb. 2024
Adjective
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Adorable Riley is now 13, which means Anxiety (Maya Hawke) has made her way to Headquarters, usurping Joy’s (Amy Poehler) authority and turning this precocious teen into a self-conscious stress ball desperate to be liked.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
19 June 2025
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There’s also concern that kids are becoming self-conscious earlier, pressured to present a polished image both on and offline.—
Dia Gallo,
Parents,
17 June 2025
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“Unadventurous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unadventurous. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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