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
  • He was distracted by a looming snowstorm when talked to the founder, James Park, and thought that Park was flat and unexciting.
    Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • And if the uninspiring, low-effort play continues into New York’s next game — a road WNBA Finals rematch against the Minnesota Lynx — the scoreboard will look much worse.
    Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • In practice, however, the joke has proven tedious.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
  • And for the first time, the Siena Express offers a genuine taste of Italy's rail heritage while unlocking a region that has long required tedious car rentals or complicated bus connections.
    Jenn Rice, Travel + Leisure, 13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • That, and try to seem as uninteresting as possible.
    Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The files, however, were a bust, consisting mostly of uninteresting or already public information.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 18 July 2025
Adjective
  • Farming takes so long and is so boring, some of us said.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The Clark County Fire Department said that tunnel boring operations had been temporarily halted at the site pending an ongoing accident investigation.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • After a few speeches, the on-screen timer became monotonous and distracting.
    Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Shrek is in a monotonous lull with his kids, Fiona, Donkey, and even Puss in Boots.
    Skyler Trepel September 1, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Although the discussion of representation can be tiresome for many who just want to be seen for their talent, Cho gets it.
    Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • How tiresome monogamy, married or otherwise, always seemed to her.
    Judy Berman, Time, 15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Couldn't think of something more boring and banal and a waste of time.
    Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Couldn’t think of something more boring and banal and a waste of time.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 14 Sep. 2025

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“Unrewarding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrewarding. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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