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Recent Examples of unrewarding
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
Here, Reader, is a run-through of Austen movies and limited TV series, from my favorite through least favorite — though Austen's novels are surprisingly sturdy, if approached with fondness and respect, and only the last of these would be considered unrewarding.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 19 July 2025
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
Writing posts and connecting with people online can be unrewarding at first.
—Andrey Insarov, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
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Alora Bopray, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
Here, Reader, is a run-through of Austen movies and limited TV series, from my favorite through least favorite — though Austen's novels are surprisingly sturdy, if approached with fondness and respect, and only the last of these would be considered unrewarding.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 19 July 2025
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
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
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And yet the share price action (which has been unexciting as of late vs others in the space) remained relatively muted in the aftermarket.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
26 Feb. 2026
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This past offseason started hot and then slowly cooled into a generally unexciting paste.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Top-seeded Michigan survived an uninspiring performance to hold off Ohio State 71-67, while fourth-seeded Illinois blew a 15-point lead and faltered down the stretch in a 91-88 overtime loss to Wisconsin.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Mar. 2026
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When Mao Zedong died, in 1976, his successor as China’s paramount leader, Hua Guofeng, ruled as an uninspiring Maoist, following most of the Great Helmsman’s policies.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
9 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Look for ways to gamify tedious tasks or purposefully try to have a good attitude about upcoming chores.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
27 Mar. 2026
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What sets them apart is, in exchange for yearly sacrifices in the form of new hires who seem like they won’t be missed, the Virgil’s inhabitants have been granted a conditional immortality that makes the film’s action sequences more fun for a while and then more tedious.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 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
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As our Mike Vorkunov already pointed out, the four teams that are pennies above the tax line (Philadelphia, Denver, Phoenix and Toronto) are virtually guaranteed to make small deals to get under; these will just be spectacularly uninteresting trades in terms of actual basketball.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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Simply, Florida’s Pro Day was as boring as ever.—
Noah White,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2026
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Given a list, the sorts of things Americans are comfortable with AI doing tend to be impersonal or even boring tasks, as well as those that less directly impact them, like proofreading or searching online.—
Anthony Salvanto,
CBS News,
26 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The result is a style that looks harmonious but is anything but monotonous.—
Jana Ackermann,
Glamour,
28 Mar. 2026
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That monotonous diet would be supplemented with eggs, milk, cheese, fish, or vegetables when available, and meat on special occasions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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These exercises are often associated with the tiresome pursuit of six-pack abs.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
23 Mar. 2026
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But the relentless words of wisdom, and the shouting-to-the-rafters way they’re delivered, soon become tiresome.—
Jon O'Brien,
IndieWire,
19 Mar. 2026
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The final two-thirds of ARIRANG are more pop-friendly but no less banal.—
Joshua Minsoo Kim,
Pitchfork,
24 Mar. 2026
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Screenshots of headlines and childhood narratives for specific manosphere personalities hint at a larger problem without fully mapping it, and the result is a banal portrait that paints these guys as mostly thriving.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Unrewarding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrewarding. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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