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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unenterprising
Adjective
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The door series emphasizes one weakness of the show: its unadventurous hang.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
ARTnews.com,
26 Mar. 2025 -
The team became a kind of lazy shorthand for tastefully unadventurous filmmaking, and unfairly so.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
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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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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Snorting, grunting, and other strange noses The parents of Bauer’s patients often demonstrate the weird noises their kids make—all in the name of helping their embarrassed children.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
2 May 2025
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Swanson said the one-day spring training shoot was a fun experience, but the easily embarrassed ballplayer initially struggled to unleash his inner Justin Timberlake.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2025
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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As Magazine Dreams progresses, Maddox descends further into his antisocial tendencies and grows more destructive.—
Hannah Giorgis,
The Atlantic,
4 Apr. 2025
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Stanley Hudson, Angela Martin, and Karen Filippelli As far as being antisocial is concerned, Stanley Hudson takes the cake.—
Lisa Stardust,
People.com,
24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Saying that out loud, my dad became uncharacteristically self-conscious.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2025
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As someone who’s self-conscious about having thin hair, this tangible change does give me a confidence boost, even if my stylist is the only other person who clocks it.—
Kara McGrath,
Allure,
5 May 2025
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“Unenterprising.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unenterprising. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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