unrewarding

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Recent Examples of unrewarding These issues rendered the festival experience exhausting and unrewarding, contrary to what was promised when tickets were purchased. Melonee Hurt, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 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 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 Higher education advisor Dan Ulin of Elite Student Coach in Los Angeles, California says downsides of unrewarding advanced degrees can extend far beyond the potential for long-term student loan debt and being thrust into an industry with limited (or no) growth potential. Robert Farrington, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unrewarding
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrewarding
Adjective
  • While declaring a tie for now is admittedly unexciting, the fact that this race is too close to call from the outset is a good thing.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Theory 2: Bad hires In unexciting coaching carousels, Florida sat on the wrong horses.
    Matt Baker, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Against the Cardinals, Love came through with an uninspiring performance.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The decision was met with criticism, especially after an uninspiring 2-0 loss to South Korea.
    Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Other ideas include machines that can redeem bottles and cans in bulk by the bag, rather than the tedious process of feeding them into a machine one at a time.
    Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Forget the tedious collection of settings, sensors, and automatic programs that premium waffle makers offer, the Presto proves that simpler can be better.
    Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Toxic relationships and love triangles also ranked among the most tiresome or uninteresting tropes for young viewers.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The truth is incredibly uninteresting because the magic is kind of within.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Though the pacing and breadth of the episode ensure that things never get boring, not all the stories are equally compelling.
    Scott Meslow, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Klum doesn't want to let anyone down by choosing the boring or easy way out with a costume.
    Hedy Phillips, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 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
  • The movie drags in the middle, when it’s locked in a prisoner drama that grows a little tiresome and predictable.
    Jake Coyle, Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • Were the subject banal or frivolous, the approach would offer no more than one caper after another.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025

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