as in unsexy
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Recent Examples of unerotic
The director Ninja Thyberg’s new film is graphic yet deeply unerotic.
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 May 2022
Holbein was sensitive but cautiously unerotic in picturing women, who are usually sombre.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
Surprisingly, McKay offers nothing more graphic than that rather unerotic image.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 May 2022
Holbein was sensitive but cautiously unerotic in picturing women, who are usually sombre.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
Surprisingly, McKay offers nothing more graphic than that rather unerotic image.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unerotic
Adjective
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As far as bright ideas go, taming food waste remains a bit unsexy.—
Jen Rose Smith,
AFAR Media,
27 May 2025
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The problem is that most of the changes from the Switch to the Switch 2 are unsexy quality-of-life improvements, which are hard to get an audience excited about.—
Emily Palmer Heller,
Vulture,
11 June 2025
Adjective
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More decorous versions simply excluded Jews, Blacks, and others to create those ethnic enclaves Vance decries in the form of elite institutions from country clubs to, formerly, Congress and the courts.—
Rebecca Solnit
August 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Aug. 2024
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Instead, they are selected and rearranged to form a narrative of gradual debasement: a semantic descent from the decorous to the vulgar, often ending with crude references to the body.—
Jeffrey Weiss,
Artforum,
1 May 2025
Adjective
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Padilla ordinarily is a very polite guy, extraordinary civil — calm, soft-spoken, the opposite of an aggressive loudmouth.—
George Skelton,
Mercury News,
18 June 2025
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Gentle readers often ask Miss Manners how to respond to questions put to them for which there does not appear to be any polite answer.—
Judith Martin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 June 2025
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“Unerotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unerotic. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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