as in boring
not causing people to want to do or create something
an uninspiring public speaker The landscape was dreary and uninspiring.
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Recent Examples of uninspiring
The Bears led 11-0 after a mostly uninspiring first half.
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Jeff Faraudo, Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2025
Frei's Mare, an intelligent woman trapped at an uninspiring job, delivers the deadpan, glance-to-the-camera laughs that mockumentaries like this thrive on.
—Kristen Baldwin, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2025
Getty Images After finishing last year with an uninspiring 36-46 record, the Phoenix Suns traded Kevin Durant and agreed to a buyout with Bradley Beal.
—Mat Issa, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Embiid isn’t playing very much and the roster is old and uninspiring.
—James L. Edwards Iii, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
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Jeff Faraudo, Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2025
Frei's Mare, an intelligent woman trapped at an uninspiring job, delivers the deadpan, glance-to-the-camera laughs that mockumentaries like this thrive on.
—Kristen Baldwin, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2025
Getty Images After finishing last year with an uninspiring 36-46 record, the Phoenix Suns traded Kevin Durant and agreed to a buyout with Bradley Beal.
—Mat Issa, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Embiid isn’t playing very much and the roster is old and uninspiring.
—James L. Edwards Iii, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uninspiring
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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
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County plans acknowledged potential harm to pallid bats native to the area and called for installing bat boxes to offer them an alternative habitat.—
Hannah Elsmore,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Nov. 2025
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Tallow or beef fat is usually pale, off-white, sometimes yellow: complexion was a key sign of chlorosis, which was named with a Greek word meaning pale, pallid, or yellow-green.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
27 Sep. 2025
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Winter showcases the exfoliating bark, which peels away to reveal strips of gray, orange, and brick red.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
9 Nov. 2025
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The coat is available in five colors, including dark brown, oat, caramel, gray, and black, as well as sizes ranging from XS to XL.—
Rachel Trujillo,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
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Rockets and satellites were historically mostly built in massive, sterile places where engineers in Tyvek suits moved cautiously around intricate components.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Intelligence Profiles That Foster Innovation At GAIME Conference, creativity is the focus, not sterile conference rooms.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
28 Oct. 2025
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People pour in from the dense warrens of India’s financial capital and from dusty villages thousands of kilometers away, all flowing towards the fortified, sea-facing Mumbai home of actor Shah Rukh Khan.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
9 Nov. 2025
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Workers are startled when a jar tumbles out of a dusty box and rolls onto the ground.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
6 Nov. 2025
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The Chinese retailer, known for its range of cheap ultra-fast-fashion clothing and criticisms of its labor and environmental practices, is nestled on the sixth floor of a more than century-old building in Paris, a city famous for high-end fashion and a recent green push.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
7 Nov. 2025
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In contexts not concerning the elite private colleges of New England and their decades-old conflicts and syllabi and on-campus squabbles, this mode of prestige media procedure matters absolutely and enormously, at scales difficult to tabulate.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Order the deluxe martini with gin or vodka, extra-dry vermouth, and olives or a twist; pair with truffle fries and the hearts of romaine Caesar, available on special request from the restaurant, all as classic as the setting itself.—
Melinda Sheckells,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Nov. 2025
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Up to 16 inches of rainfall drenched the Hill Country area from July 3 to July 5, a landscape known for rapid, raging flooding in extreme rain boosted by moist gulf air moving over the dry, dusty hills.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
11 Nov. 2025
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Instead, watching Charles attempt to insert himself into the Garfield Administration by forging papers and sneaking into buildings feels repetitive and a bit dull.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
6 Nov. 2025
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Their life in Watertown had been ordinary, maybe even dull sometimes.—
Jamie Thompson,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
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