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Recent Examples of unheroic That larger significance is remarkably unheroic and fatalistic. Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024 In the world of The Boys, based on the gleefully scabrous 2000s indie comic-book series of the same name by writer Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson, superheroes are real, pop-culture-dominating, and with rare exceptions, entirely unheroic. Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2024 And if the moderate theory appears cautious and unheroic, well, it's got nothing on the unheroic inactivity of most Republicans hoping to defang Trumpism, who have convinced themselves that the way to avoid a worse replay of the 2020 endgame is not to fight him openly at all. Ross Douthat New York Times, Star Tribune, 7 June 2021 But rational reasoning is no way to reach Josephine, as the adults around her discover one by one — beginning with Spencer, played with commendably unheroic tetchiness by Harington, as his sensitive support gradually sours into parental oneupmanship. Guy Lodge, Variety, 2 Feb. 2023 From the costumes to the makeup, from visual effects to sound design, the goal was to be as realistic as possible and underscore the movie’s anti-war and deliberately unheroic depiction of an ordinary soldier in battle. Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023 John’s figures are wood stained in unheroic reality. Bob Guccione Jr, SPIN, 17 Feb. 2023 Capturing that horror, and giving a very unheroic cinematic vision of war, was one of the main goals for director Edward Berger in his new, German-language adaption of All Quiet on the Western Front. Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2022 Its stars still burn brightly—perhaps especially so in our own gruesomely unheroic times—with Ernest Shackleton considered by many to be the brightest star of them all. Sara Wheeler, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unheroic
Adjective
  • And unlike the cowardly ambiguity and doubletalk toward Iran and its nuclear program in the past by Barack Obama, John Kerry, Joe Biden and Antony Blinken, Trump was clear as a bell.
    Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 4 July 2025
  • Those cowardly films ignore the ideological confusion and moral bankruptcy that precede political and creative failure.
    Armond White, National Review, 4 July 2025
Adjective
  • Don’t be afraid to dig deep as this transit sparks your interest in exploring your emotional and creative longings, whether that means tackling personal projects or revisiting childhood passions.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 28 June 2025
  • Sydney Sweeney was not afraid to pull punches when playing real-life Christy Martin in the upcoming biopic about the boxer, which wrapped production last November.
    Rance Collins, IndieWire, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • Audience noises at the NRG Stadium in Houston went from frightened gasps to applause as the descent was completed.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 29 June 2025
  • Things were hectic in the mall, Stain, 45, said, with lots of frightened people running to the exits.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • The craven hypocrisy of all this no longer registers for the right.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 27 June 2025
  • Scheider returns as Amity Island’s beleaguered police chief, a man still forced to work with Murray Hamilton’s craven mayor, who’s somehow kept his job after keeping the beaches open during the last shark attack.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • Some also have lost lawyers, dismayed by the pusillanimous behavior of their leaders.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025
  • The second believed the United States could attain comprehensive security through military-technological means and saw diplomacy as a quixotic or pusillanimous enterprise that dishonored and weakened the country.
    A. Wess Mitchell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • An officer said the man was dehydrated, confused and scared when he was rescued, according to WBZ.
    Jillian Frankel, People.com, 30 June 2025
  • All small business owners suffer financially when their employees are taken or too scared to come to work.
    Billal Rahman Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Listen, by doing it this way, with a press release instead of a press conference, Rose looks both gutless and gutty at the same time.
    Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 6 June 2025
  • Two baseballs flew down toward the San Diego Padres’ Jurickson Profar from the left-field corner stands, the gutless moves of two cowards.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • The bi-tone bezel, incidentally, is the key to keeping track of dastardly deeds in two different time zones simultaneously.
    Chris Haslam, Wired News, 23 May 2025
  • Naturally, this doesn't last long, and he gets called in to help nab the elusive arms dealer Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman) — the most dastardly villain he's faced yet.
    EW.com, EW.com, 21 May 2025

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“Unheroic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unheroic. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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