unexciting

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for unexciting
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unexciting
Adjective
  • Against the Cardinals, Love came through with an uninspiring performance.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The decision was met with criticism, especially after an uninspiring 2-0 loss to South Korea.
    Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The drama stars Cici Wang as Monkey, a backstage theater worker facing unemployment after years of unrewarding work.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Toxic relationships and love triangles also ranked among the most tiresome or uninteresting tropes for young viewers.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The truth is incredibly uninteresting because the magic is kind of within.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Without getting into spoilers, her one-and-done appearance in Episode 5 presents the perfect opportunity for the more-than-capable Meester to match wits with Bell’s judgmental Joanna, only to strand the actor with boring, obvious jokes and saddle her with a feeble resolution.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Now, adidas is also proving that hiking boots don’t have to look boring, since the brand’s perfect-for-fall versions are attractive as can be, what with their mingling of brown with other earth tones.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • On the road, the Murano sidesteps the insipid CVT vibe of the past.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Callahan’s baritone is rich and full, but the rest of the instrumentation feels insipid.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • Life was exceedingly dull, monotonous, and uncertain for a long while, Curry wrote.
    Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • They're usually stifled by monotonous or isolated work.
    William Vanderbloemen, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Were the subject banal or frivolous, the approach would offer no more than one caper after another.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • If your instinct, in other words, is to smooth things over with a bland fabrication, try dropping a tiny truth bomb instead.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Overall, Delta’s hope is that by scaling up the culinary quality level, the age-old reputation of bland, tasteless airline food will be a thing of the past.
    Rachel Chang, AFAR Media, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Unexciting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unexciting. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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