as in unexciting
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Recent Examples of unrewarding
The 10 wave playlist mode is boring, short and unrewarding.
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Paul Tassi, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
Some or all of the Arab countries involved would likely demand that Israel halt settlement expansion on the West Bank or make other concessions to the Palestinians as the price of their participation in a difficult and unrewarding mission.
—Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
Cerebral men of letters often make unrewarding screen protagonists, spending too much time in their own heads to fully engage as characters.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
But if long Covid is really a form of ME/CFS, this approach will likely be unrewarding.
—Steven Phillips, STAT, 14 Sep. 2023
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Paul Tassi, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
Some or all of the Arab countries involved would likely demand that Israel halt settlement expansion on the West Bank or make other concessions to the Palestinians as the price of their participation in a difficult and unrewarding mission.
—Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
Cerebral men of letters often make unrewarding screen protagonists, spending too much time in their own heads to fully engage as characters.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
But if long Covid is really a form of ME/CFS, this approach will likely be unrewarding.
—Steven Phillips, STAT, 14 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrewarding
Adjective
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Will Warren and Carlos Carrasco are among the internal favorites to take the spot vacated by Cole, though the Yankees could explore the trade market or a slim, unexciting list of remaining free agents.—
Gary Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Mar. 2025
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Many economic forecasts show the U.S. adding somewhere around 150,000 jobs with a slight increase in the unemployment rate last month — a solid, if unexciting report.—
Sylvan Lane,
The Hill,
6 Mar. 2025
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How has the market managed to hold its ground near record highs against a jarring breakdown in the bull market’s bell cow Nvidia , a jumpy bond market, some uninspiring results from Apple and Microsoft and on-and-off-and-on tariff threats against the America’s largest trading partners?—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
1 Feb. 2025
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All this from a team that, on paper in the preseason, looked wholly uninspiring.—
Brendan Quinn,
The Athletic,
22 Feb. 2025
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At the risk of sounding too preachy (or maybe tedious?—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
25 Feb. 2025
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Ideally, containers should be within reach of your garden hose, which is less tedious than lugging heavy watering cans all over the place.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
25 Feb. 2025
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In a multiverse of new and often uninteresting heroes, Cox is a life raft.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
5 Mar. 2025
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Our effort to identify the source of this anomaly is in part a detective story and part a cautionary tale about the importance of preserving seemingly uninteresting data.—
Viktor T. Toth,
IEEE Spectrum,
30 Nov. 2012
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Then Saturday, Columbus sputtered to a disappointing (and boring) scoreless draw at home against the Houston Dynamo, one of the weakest MLS teams.—
Andrew King,
Axios,
11 Mar. 2025
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Literature that doesn’t contain its own version of this deal—literature that tries to freeze-frame reality instead of transmuting it—is often boring, even alienating.—
Lily Meyer,
The Atlantic,
11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Life doesn’t need to be a monotonous fog, nor is it supposed to be perpetually rapturously engaging.—
Allie Volpe,
Vox,
3 Mar. 2025
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My mornings began with a monotonous dread that would persist throughout the day.—
Charley Locke,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The giants, led by Goliath, are neat to behold, but Saul’s hallucinations quickly grow tiresome, the least interesting way to show a secure monarch succumbing to paranoia.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
27 Feb. 2025
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There is also a good deal of tiresome comic business between Modi and his similarly talented but unsuccessful friends, Maurice Utrillo (Bruno Gouery) and Chaim Soutine (Ryan McParland).—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
24 Sep. 2024
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The thundering poet termed the result uninspired and banal, so the other professor went into Dickinson’s 1,800-poem corpus, retrieved an obscure quatrain and presented it to the poet, who called the result banal and uninspired.—
David Galef,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Feb. 2025
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Seeking Clues in Cabinet Cards The poignant images, at once banal and intimate, in the Lynch Family Photographs Collection contain mysteries perhaps only the public can solve.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Unrewarding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrewarding. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.
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