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Recent Examples of unrewarding
The drama stars Cici Wang as Monkey, a backstage theater worker facing unemployment after years of unrewarding work.
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Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
28 Aug. 2025
These plants are often altogether unrewarding for pollinators, since the flowers no longer produce nectar or pollen.
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Claire Therese Hemingway,
The Conversation,
18 Aug. 2025
Quiet firing is when an employer deliberately makes a job so unrewarding, isolating or stagnant that the employee feels pressured to quit, rather than being formally terminated.
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Alora Bopray,
USA Today,
12 Aug. 2025
Writing posts and connecting with people online can be unrewarding at first.
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Andrey Insarov,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unrewarding
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
28 Aug. 2025
These plants are often altogether unrewarding for pollinators, since the flowers no longer produce nectar or pollen.
—
Claire Therese Hemingway,
The Conversation,
18 Aug. 2025
Quiet firing is when an employer deliberately makes a job so unrewarding, isolating or stagnant that the employee feels pressured to quit, rather than being formally terminated.
—
Alora Bopray,
USA Today,
12 Aug. 2025
Writing posts and connecting with people online can be unrewarding at first.
—
Andrey Insarov,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unrewarding
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrewarding
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Reliability and consistency were her hallmarks—admirable qualities, but unexciting.
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Dull, unexciting fight scenes; just CGI monsters.
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The young activist has relentlessly pounded Espaillat as a moderate on Israel and an uninspiring fixture of the Democratic establishment.
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The Brazilians will be under pressure to secure a lopsided win after the uninspiring performance against Morocco.
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Soccer’s video assistant referee system is worse than the NBA’s tedious in-game reviews.
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Rather than succumb to the misery of its subject matter, Union County is about the quiet, tedious, and remarkable work that is getting and staying sober — the final product a testament to all that can be achieved.
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The film's trailer looked unoriginal and uninteresting.
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On the other hand, the statement is emblematic of the uninteresting vagueness of Spider-Noir‘s world-building.
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Far fewer people stay responsible when the work turns boring, unclear or inconvenient, and that's precisely when ownership surfaces.
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Monocultures can be boring, but on the flipside, a huge collection of individual species looks like a busy bowl of potpourri.
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Rather than replacing existing automation, humanoid robots are intended to complement it by handling monotonous, ergonomically challenging, or safety-critical tasks while allowing employees to focus on higher-value work.
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Across two experiments, participants completed deliberately monotonous tasks, including copying or reading telephone numbers, before taking a creative uses test.
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But the biggest beef to be had is in Sarnoski’s insistence to bludgeon us with pulverizing violence, which grows tiresome and repetitive in the carnage-spewing initial 30 minutes.
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Crucially, this Bond is terrific, not tiresome.
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Wemby didn’t hesitate, but since English isn’t his first language, his initial response — something banal about being a team player who wants to win a lot of games — came out a bit disjointed.
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Grief mangles cognition and memory in ways that can make even banal tasks feel surreal, if not impossible.
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“Unrewarding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrewarding. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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