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Recent Examples of unexciting
Producers love an unexciting telecast, but audiences are hungry for the kind of raw emotion and drama that populates the films that win the awards.
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Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
Kenzie was far from the first contestant in Survivor history to earn her million dollars that way, and her victory, though unexciting, was not illegitimate.
—Mark Harris, Vulture, 4 June 2024
With the exception of the two men who provide the film with its ridiculously unexciting love triangle, everyone in Alex’s orbit is one-dimensional and uninteresting.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
Another way of saying it: these companies generally are boring, unexciting and keep to themselves for the most part.
—John Navin, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
Kenzie was far from the first contestant in Survivor history to earn her million dollars that way, and her victory, though unexciting, was not illegitimate.
—Mark Harris, Vulture, 4 June 2024
With the exception of the two men who provide the film with its ridiculously unexciting love triangle, everyone in Alex’s orbit is one-dimensional and uninteresting.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
Another way of saying it: these companies generally are boring, unexciting and keep to themselves for the most part.
—John Navin, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unexciting
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Michail Antonio looks set to depart when his contract expires at the end of June, Evan Ferguson has returned to Brighton & Hove Albion following his uninspiring loan spell, and Niclas Fullkrug has an uncertain future, despite joining for £27million from Borussia Dortmund last summer.—
Dan Sheldon,
New York Times,
22 June 2025
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The result was an uninspiring field that made Abruzzo’s hiring inevitable.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
21 June 2025
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Some of the turnaround may be a result of the ways work has increasingly become uncertain and difficult for workers, let alone unrewarding and unfulfilling.—
Adia Harvey Wingfield,
Forbes.com,
16 June 2025
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But what has emerged is a repetitive, unattractive, and finally unrewarding slog, in which Ducournau’s filmmaking verve itself seems to harden into lifelessness.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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The new Snow White represents progressive mediocrity — the antagonism between Snow White and her evil stepmother (Gal Gadot) is bland and uninteresting after the remarkable modern version White as Snow that starred Lou de Laâge and Isabelle Huppert.—
Armond White,
National Review,
26 Mar. 2025
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The first act is genuinely atrocious, a mess of story threads revolving around an uninteresting villain in the AI Entity that feels far too downbeat and sad for this franchise.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
23 May 2025
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This is worlds away from that boring deli chicken sandwich, while still being easy enough to whip up on the busiest of days.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
28 June 2025
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The contract’s scope of work includes the single bore tunnel, station entrances and exits, the excavation of underground stations and the procurement of a tunnel boring machine.—
Grace Hase,
Mercury News,
27 June 2025
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Brazil were insipid at last summer’s Copa America and have gone downhill since.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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Little Dog asks, an insipid comparison that illuminates only the fungibility of abstract nouns.—
Andrea Long Chu,
Vulture,
6 May 2025
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Even the center's manager admitted the work is pretty monotonous.—
Aowen Cao,
NPR,
18 June 2025
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Like you, or, sorry, like the woman in the book, the ordinary feels so uninspiring, so monotonous.—
Susan Choi,
Literary Hub,
5 June 2025
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In one of the film’s most exquisite moments, Casey shows Jin, from the banal setting of her car, the building that sparked her aesthetic awakening; then her hand, holding a cigarette, traces the building’s outlines, as seen from her own ardently abstracting perspective.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
20 June 2025
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What needs to happen to turn the nightcrawler—the same banal creature found in gardens and on flooded sidewalks across the continent—into a valuable commodity? . . .—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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The technology could actually pressure speakers to focus on practical, actionable content rather than bland, general advice.—
Roger Dooley,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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What used to signal timelessness and functionality has become shorthand for bland, forgettable and often disposable.—
Footwear News,
Footwear News,
5 June 2025
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“Unexciting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unexciting. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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