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Recent Examples of unathletic
Embiid and George are now slow, unathletic, expensive vets whose health remains a constant question.
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Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2025
Persistent lower back pain, despite two surgeries to relieve a herniated disc a few years ago—blame an unathletic youth and an adulthood spent hunched over a computer.
—Peter J. Frank, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2025
Some of your tribe members perceived you as unathletic and not a good puzzle solver.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 25 Sep. 2025
No one openly rejoices when an unathletic student fails a fitness test or exits gym dodgeball early.
—Richard Menger Md Mpa, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2025
Persistent lower back pain, despite two surgeries to relieve a herniated disc a few years ago—blame an unathletic youth and an adulthood spent hunched over a computer.
—Peter J. Frank, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2025
Some of your tribe members perceived you as unathletic and not a good puzzle solver.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 25 Sep. 2025
No one openly rejoices when an unathletic student fails a fitness test or exits gym dodgeball early.
—Richard Menger Md Mpa, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unathletic
Adjective
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If venue personnel deem any person to be a threat, or otherwise unfit, in their sole discretion, he or she will not be permitted access and shall forfeit the prize.—
AJC.com,
AJC.com,
8 June 2026
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And so Maine voters still have a chance to send a message to the party brass continuing to coalesce around candidates who are not merely imperfect but entitled or unfit.—
Shannon A. Mullen,
The Atlantic,
4 June 2026
Adjective
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The Rock People were a feeble attempt to cash in on the shapeshifting craze, as Stonedar, Rokkon, and Granita (the latter never immortalized as an action figure) could turn themselves into… er, meteors.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
4 June 2026
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The manner the ball traveled from Maradona suggested a feebler contact than a pure header.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
3 June 2026
Adjective
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Platform companies become unhealthy for any number of reasons.—
Louis Mosca,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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The weather service’s Chicago office in a post Tuesday to social media attributed the alert to unhealthy ozone levels and warned air quality is expected to be at unhealthy levels for sensitive groups.—
Tess Kenny,
Chicago Tribune,
26 May 2026
Adjective
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European powers responded with waves of uncoordinated border closures and trade restrictions that caused enormous economic damage without reliably stopping transmission.—
Katrine L. Wallace,
The Conversation,
29 May 2026
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These incidents are part of a growing pattern of uncoordinated gatherings that have increased in size and frequency over the past several years.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
28 May 2026
Adjective
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That's thanks in large part to Hathaway's winning turn as Mia Thermopolis, a gawky teenager who discovers that her estranged grandmother (Julie Andrews) is actually the queen of a small country.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
5 May 2026
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These were held at high schools filled with gawky kids in suits that always fit badly but never in the same way: the tie was too long, the pants or the skirt too small, the jacket was borrowed from an older sibling.—
Eli Durst,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
Adjective
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After this, the boy and his mother move to Lima, where the father sends him to a military academy, in an attempt to beat the wimpy artist out of him.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
20 May 2026
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Bad sesame-ginger dressings are watery, wimpy, oily or syrupy.—
Jolene Thym,
Mercury News,
3 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Seydoux tromps through the film with a masculine heaviness — a sense of dysphoria that translates to her character’s ungainly bearing.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
18 May 2026
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In its back-to-back knottiness, the album takes on an ungainly quality that, deliberate or not, sets up roadblocks to prolonged enjoyment.—
Maxie Younger,
Pitchfork,
27 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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As the story goes, attendance was weak, the weather was bad, and the tournament experience was just lacking.—
James Burky,
Denver Post,
29 May 2026
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As many as 40 states combine one-party control with institutional barriers weak enough to fall to political pressure.—
Bruce Sibley,
Time,
29 May 2026
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“Unathletic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unathletic. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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