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The Tonale is comfortable but unexciting in its normal driving mode.
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Mark Phelan, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
He was distracted by a looming snowstorm when talked to the founder, James Park, and thought that Park was flat and unexciting.
—Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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
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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
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Mark Phelan, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
He was distracted by a looming snowstorm when talked to the founder, James Park, and thought that Park was flat and unexciting.
—Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unexciting
Adjective
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Their build-up play was so slow and uninspiring.—
James Pearce,
New York Times,
2 Jan. 2026
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Even the pro-democracy narrative, which inspired citizens and movements throughout the twentieth century, has become stale and uninspiring.—
NIC CHEESEMAN,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Dec. 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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Clear Lake's one-day Color the Wind Kite Festival in February began more than 20 years ago to brighten up monotonous winter days in northern Iowa.—
Lauren Dana Ellman,
Midwest Living,
29 Dec. 2025
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Lengthy drives over the many bridges here can trigger highway hypnosis, a nap-like mental state caused by the bridge’s unique vibrations, monotonous scenery and the sense of going nowhere that leads one’s brain to shift to (non-existent) autopilot.—
Crai S Bower,
Outside,
18 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Set in Portland, Oregon, in a bleak, overpopulated near future, The Lathe of Heaven is built around the banal question What if your dreams came true?—
Erin Somers,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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Crumb, at the time, would be dressed unremarkably casually, in banal pants and sweater, with thick glasses, looking more or less like a geek.—
David Zane Mairowitz,
Rolling Stone,
22 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Democrat Gray Davis, to name a recent example, had an extensive background in government and politics and a bland demeanor that suggested his first name was also a fitting adjective.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Jan. 2026
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Is there an unwritten rule about being a bland professional and not showing any personality?—
Kevin Kurz,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2026
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“Unexciting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unexciting. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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