unrewarding

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Recent Examples of unrewarding The 10 wave playlist mode is boring, short and unrewarding. 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 See All Example Sentences for unrewarding
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrewarding
Adjective
  • Vodka is all-too-often written off as an unexciting category of spirit.
    Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Producers love an unexciting telecast, but audiences are hungry for the kind of raw emotion and drama that populates the films that win the awards.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The 28-year-old put up similarly uninspiring numbers over 11 games at Triple-A.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 1 May 2025
  • Despite allowing an ugly early goal, Joseph Woll was sturdy enough to keep them in the game, but the final score flattered Toronto’s uninspiring effort.
    Nick Ashbourne, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Grant applications can be so tedious that some organizations hire professionals whose sole job is to write applications for grant funding.
    Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 14 May 2025
  • To get the most out of it from the gate, enterprises should identify tedious knowledge work that AI agents can support, require agents to show their work and leverage AI verifiers to supervise for accuracy.
    Alon Goren, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
Adjective
  • What remains consistent is the splendid topography of Frazier’s prose, and the sense throughout his work that there are, in fact, no uninteresting places, just uninteresting writers.
    The Atlantic, The Atlantic, 15 May 2025
  • Image The stories of Twain’s children, who either died young or suffered innumerable medical and professional setbacks, are heart-rending and hardly uninteresting.
    Dwight Garner, New York Times, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • The Salon Clutch Structured yet theatrical, Le Salon is Jacquemus’s answer to the evening clutch—pared back, but never boring.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 10 May 2025
  • Even Jiro himself, originally thought the film would be boring, Gelb admitted.
    Kristin L. Wolfe, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
Adjective
  • Through technologies like virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, this platform gives users the ability to create dynamic, multi-sensory career portfolios that go beyond basic bullet points and monotonous bios.
    Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The city’s turbulent 20th-century history is visible in the bullet holes on facades, the graffitied remains of the Berlin Wall and the monotonous residential blocks erected during the post-World War II reconstruction.
    Valeriya Safronova, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • One of the tiresome aspects of this new-world college football era is fans of opposing schools asserting that players bypassed their school only because of an NIL payout from another school.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 14 May 2025
  • The marketing around their rematch (which ended in a tiresome double disqualification) was a poor omen for Savage vs. DiBiase.
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Her feeds from Paris Fashion Week 2016 are a representative sample—a pacifying stream of cream and white, diamonds and lace, outsize wealth made as banal as breakfast.
    Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 19 May 2025
  • The internet has encouraged only more comparison, and more consternation—more places to argue, more pressure to make even the most banal parts of our lives beautiful.
    Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2025

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“Unrewarding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrewarding. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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