as in unimaginative
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Recent Examples of uncreative
What excites me most is what this unlocks for people who have always seen themselves as uncreative.
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Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
17 Mar. 2026
The issue here isn’t necessarily the depiction of the USSR, which certainly had plenty of domestic shortages at this time, but that Ponies is so uncreative in communicating those realities to us.
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Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
14 Jan. 2026
Weak, uncreative, not real bright people.
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Brenton Blanchet,
PEOPLE,
24 Nov. 2025
Weak, uncreative, not real bright people.
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Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Nov. 2025
That leaves it friendless, brittle, and uncreative—and, paradoxically, that leaves it vulnerable when fighting, too.
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Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
If a business has been operating with loose controls and has been allowing creativity to be deployed against uncreative things, then stop.
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Megan Poinski,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
That being said, the chorus is a bit uncreative and repetitive.
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Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
22 July 2024
Upgraded felt stale, generic, and uncreative, and as a Brazilian-Colombian critic, that hurts.
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Nicole Froio,
refinery29.com,
11 Feb. 2024
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
17 Mar. 2026
The issue here isn’t necessarily the depiction of the USSR, which certainly had plenty of domestic shortages at this time, but that Ponies is so uncreative in communicating those realities to us.
—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
14 Jan. 2026
Weak, uncreative, not real bright people.
—
Brenton Blanchet,
PEOPLE,
24 Nov. 2025
Weak, uncreative, not real bright people.
—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Nov. 2025
That leaves it friendless, brittle, and uncreative—and, paradoxically, that leaves it vulnerable when fighting, too.
—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
If a business has been operating with loose controls and has been allowing creativity to be deployed against uncreative things, then stop.
—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
That being said, the chorus is a bit uncreative and repetitive.
—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
22 July 2024
Upgraded felt stale, generic, and uncreative, and as a Brazilian-Colombian critic, that hurts.
Want more?
—
Nicole Froio,
refinery29.com,
11 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncreative
Adjective
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This is a competent if unimaginative (it was made for Lifetime, after all) retelling of the real-life tale.
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Despite its expense and hard-working cast, its extensive, expensive and eye-filling special effects, and an effective but ear-splitting score by Jerry Goldsmith, the film remains surprisingly small, thanks to David Odell’s unimaginative, earthbound screenplay.
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The film's trailer looked unoriginal and uninteresting.
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The first stage began in July 2025, when Meta announced comprehensive measures targeting accounts that repeatedly share unoriginal content without meaningful enhancement, building on enforcement actions that had already been taken against 500,000 accounts in the first half of the year.
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Featuring one of the world’s best defenses, the team has been uninspired in attack and didn’t score a goal in its first two matches.
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One of the earliest signs that the new Supergirl will be an uninspired slog is the overload of blobby alien dirtbags, grotesque creatures that look like they were refused admission to the Mos Eisley Cantina in the original Star Wars movie.
Adjective
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What truly hampers Regretting You is its inescapable unoriginality, its plodding, uninventive, unthoughtful attempts at swoon and heartbreak.
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But for years, eight or nine of the roughly 10 sketches each week have been expected, uninventive, rote duds.
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“Uncreative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncreative. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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