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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.
—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
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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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrewarding
Adjective
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Reliability and consistency were her hallmarks—admirable qualities, but unexciting.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
24 May 2026
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Dull, unexciting fight scenes; just CGI monsters.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
Adjective
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Last year's Canadian Open was a birdie-fest and ball-knowers, aka golf course nerds, are dragging TPC Toronto, calling it lifeless and uninspiring.—
Geoff Clark OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
9 June 2026
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The at-bats were somewhat uninspiring.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
27 May 2026
Adjective
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Unfortunately, the filmmaker is so keen to make good on his premise that The Death of Robin Hood becomes a tedious slog.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
11 June 2026
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In one case, the AI employed a strategy that the problem’s authors had identified but found too tedious to pursue, says Mohammed Abouzaid, a mathematician at Stanford University and a member of the First Proof team.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
10 June 2026
Adjective
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On the other hand, the statement is emblematic of the uninteresting vagueness of Spider-Noir‘s world-building.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2026
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The premise is uninteresting, and, worst of all, the jokes aren’t remotely funny.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Swapping any boring sweater with this one will instantly upgrade your travel wardrobe (without much effort at all).—
Julia Morlino,
Travel + Leisure,
11 June 2026
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He was meant to only be the stick-in-the-mud boring guy.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
11 June 2026
Adjective
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Her trick for making a scheme feel consistent but not monotonous?—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
5 June 2026
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But if couples stop introducing freshness into that stability, comfort will feel monotonous.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
Adjective
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Crucially, this Bond is terrific, not tiresome.—
Jordan Minor,
PC Magazine,
1 June 2026
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Its predictable and tiresome tribalism means that if Arsenal 2025-26 blossom from caterpillar into butterfly, there will still be some wanting to pin them down as formula football.—
Michael Walker,
New York Times,
22 May 2026
Adjective
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All game was fair game, and eating wild things was both luxurious and banal—throughout the country the consumption of wild animals was entirely typical.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
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Yet despite their cultural staying power, power ballads have historically received little scholarly attention, in part because they are often dismissed as schlocky and banal.—
Angelica Frey,
JSTOR Daily,
22 May 2026
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“Unrewarding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrewarding. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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