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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Toxic relationships and love triangles also ranked among the most tiresome or uninteresting tropes for young viewers.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Few dungeon-like areas mean nearly everything occurs on the monotonous Lumiose City streets.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Life was exceedingly dull, monotonous, and uncertain for a long while, Curry wrote.
    Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • This sketch essentially spoofs his brand partnerships and bland style.
    Andy Hoglund, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Nov. 2025
  • 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 29 Nov. 2025.

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