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Recent Examples of unexciting
Cracker Barrel proudly announced a new, streamlined, unexciting logo, explained it poorly, defended it clumsily, and failed to recognize that anything remotely resembling a jab at white people, Southern heritage or tradition these days will be attacked as woke.
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Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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Berlin may be a small town but its lodging options are far superior to your average side-of-the-road lodges or unexciting hotel chains.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 13 July 2025
The downside, of course, is that performance is pretty unexciting.
—ArsTechnica, 18 June 2025
Trending up – Players under the age of 25 on NBA finals’ teams: Up 2 players from 2024
Small market doesn’t mean unexciting.
—Harry Enten, CNN Money, 7 June 2025
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Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Where to Stay in Berlin, Maryland Check In To A Historic Hotel
Berlin may be a small town but its lodging options are far superior to your average side-of-the-road lodges or unexciting hotel chains.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 13 July 2025
The downside, of course, is that performance is pretty unexciting.
—ArsTechnica, 18 June 2025
Trending up – Players under the age of 25 on NBA finals’ teams: Up 2 players from 2024
Small market doesn’t mean unexciting.
—Harry Enten, CNN Money, 7 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unexciting
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This team is clearly stuck in a bad and awkward place because of past decisions — most notably the 2022 Deshaun Watson trade — and is on a second straight year of trotting an uninspiring and uncompetitive offense onto the field each week.—
Zac Jackson,
New York Times,
5 Nov. 2025
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On the other side of the ball, OU QB John Mateer is coming off of three straight uninspiring performances since a thumb injury that sidelined him for Oklahoma's win over Kent State on October 4.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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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With both of these cases being largely hollow and uninteresting, even despite the involvement of a traffic-cone-size butt plug, the burden is on Allura’s arc to grip us.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
4 Nov. 2025
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Toxic relationships and love triangles also ranked among the most tiresome or uninteresting tropes for young viewers.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Despite looking like a fighter pilot who could win a game of dogfight football, Colin isn’t framed as a temptation for Marissa, and a lack of sexy secrets proves to be a recurring blind spot for the series, even if those two have plenty of other skeletons in their massive, boring closets.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
6 Nov. 2025
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All this after Fern just wanted to renovate her boring bookseller life by starting over next to her orc pal Viv’s coffee shop!—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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On the road, the Murano sidesteps the insipid CVT vibe of the past.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
17 Aug. 2025
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Callahan’s baritone is rich and full, but the rest of the instrumentation feels insipid.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
29 July 2025
Adjective
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Few dungeon-like areas mean nearly everything occurs on the monotonous Lumiose City streets.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
27 Oct. 2025
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Life was exceedingly dull, monotonous, and uncertain for a long while, Curry wrote.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In banal yet often painful detail, Kehlmann reimagines the mix of pressure, vanity, humiliation, and resignation that can lead a great artist to ignore ethical imperatives and become complicit with authoritarians—a theme that feels especially timely today.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Oct. 2025
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Also like Lynch, Robinson’s onscreen world hums with quiet dread, a sense that something sinister lurks just beneath the veil of the everyday banal.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
9 Oct. 2025
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This sketch essentially spoofs his brand partnerships and bland style.—
Andy Hoglund,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Nov. 2025
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The surroundings were bland, but the conversation with Cheney was spellbinding.—
Nina Khrushcheva,
Time,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Unexciting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unexciting. Accessed 19 Nov. 2025.
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