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Recent Examples of undramatic
If his family life was grounded and undramatic, his imaginative life was something like the opposite.
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Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024
A lot of change is undramatic growth, transformation, or decay, or rather its timescale means the drama might not be perceptible to the impatient.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 24 Jan. 2024
Known for its delicate texture and undramatic look, this pie exudes old-school Southern class and charm.
—Micah A Leal, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2023
Fukuyama looked to the future a little mournfully, seeing a gray, undramatic expanse—a tableau for technocrats.
—William MacAskill, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2022
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Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024
A lot of change is undramatic growth, transformation, or decay, or rather its timescale means the drama might not be perceptible to the impatient.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 24 Jan. 2024
Known for its delicate texture and undramatic look, this pie exudes old-school Southern class and charm.
—Micah A Leal, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2023
Fukuyama looked to the future a little mournfully, seeing a gray, undramatic expanse—a tableau for technocrats.
—William MacAskill, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2022
See All Example Sentences for undramatic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undramatic
Adjective
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And, actually, this is quite a big thing, even without the schadenfreude of domestic rivals’ slip-ups or the fact that much of United’s match was, football-wise, very unspectacular.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
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Cleveland didn’t live up to the hype, the ratings were unspectacular and subsequently, they were busted back down to two national appearances the following year.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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While declaring a tie for now is admittedly unexciting, the fact that this race is too close to call from the outset is a good thing.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
3 Oct. 2025
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Theory 2: Bad hires In unexciting coaching carousels, Florida sat on the wrong horses.—
Matt Baker,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Mapping is pretty quick and uneventful, although the results did need some cleaning up and tweaking in my case.—
Loz Blain
October 14,
New Atlas,
14 Oct. 2025
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What’s more, though Kizzi teased the possibility of boatmance drama and promised to get drunk, the crew’s first night out is uneventful.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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But its most striking characteristic, now that the media is completely oversaturated with violent murders and courtroom dramas, is that De Lestrade’s work is so straightforward and unsensational.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
8 June 2018
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Robinson, whose credits include The L Word and True Blood, approaches the story in such a low-key, unsensational way that the trio's beyond-bohemian arrangement is barely eyebrow-raising.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
12 Oct. 2017
Adjective
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The drama stars Cici Wang as Monkey, a backstage theater worker facing unemployment after years of unrewarding work.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
28 Aug. 2025
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These plants are often altogether unrewarding for pollinators, since the flowers no longer produce nectar or pollen.—
Claire Therese Hemingway,
The Conversation,
18 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Saddled with an uninteresting jerk half the time and a muzzled non-entity the other half, there’s only a handful of moments in the first six episodes where Powell’s star power shines through.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
29 Sep. 2025
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Eventually the road emerges into what seems like an uninteresting parking lot with a public restroom.—
Barry Neild,
CNN Money,
23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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What exactly was the charm of these books which critics had written off initially as being unimaginative and derivative?—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Oct. 2025
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Sure, last season was punctuated by an intriguing finish, but for the most part, Canales’ offense has felt unimaginative.—
DIAMOND VENCES,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Lina had given up pretending to sleep; her parents were boring today.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
8 Oct. 2025
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Others have called out the boring marketing campaign based around flogging variants in order for Swift to finally beat the record for the biggest opening sales week for a female artist in history (currently held by Adele, which she is likely projected to break).—
Bianca Davino,
Refinery29,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Undramatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undramatic. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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