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Recent Examples of unrewarding
These issues rendered the festival experience exhausting and unrewarding, contrary to what was promised when tickets were purchased.
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Melonee Hurt, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Some of the turnaround may be a result of the ways work has increasingly become uncertain and difficult for workers, let alone unrewarding and unfulfilling.
—Adia Harvey Wingfield, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
But what has emerged is a repetitive, unattractive, and finally unrewarding slog, in which Ducournau’s filmmaking verve itself seems to harden into lifelessness.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Higher education advisor Dan Ulin of Elite Student Coach in Los Angeles, California says downsides of unrewarding advanced degrees can extend far beyond the potential for long-term student loan debt and being thrust into an industry with limited (or no) growth potential.
—Robert Farrington, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
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Melonee Hurt, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Some of the turnaround may be a result of the ways work has increasingly become uncertain and difficult for workers, let alone unrewarding and unfulfilling.
—Adia Harvey Wingfield, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
But what has emerged is a repetitive, unattractive, and finally unrewarding slog, in which Ducournau’s filmmaking verve itself seems to harden into lifelessness.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Higher education advisor Dan Ulin of Elite Student Coach in Los Angeles, California says downsides of unrewarding advanced degrees can extend far beyond the potential for long-term student loan debt and being thrust into an industry with limited (or no) growth potential.
—Robert Farrington, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrewarding
Adjective
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While declaring a tie for now is admittedly unexciting, the fact that this race is too close to call from the outset is a good thing.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
3 Oct. 2025
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Theory 2: Bad hires In unexciting coaching carousels, Florida sat on the wrong horses.—
Matt Baker,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Was that due to playing in an uninspiring situation in Utah or just Father Time?—
James L. Edwards III,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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The Bruins’ uninspiring and slow-starting offense ranks 127th in the nation – despite the addition of high-profile transfer quarterback Nico Iamaleava.—
Mirjam Swanson,
Oc Register,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The upshot of this contempt is a season that layers hypocrisy as well as sanctimony over the grubby, tedious nihilism that made Dahmer so miserable to watch.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
6 Oct. 2025
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Their analysis suggests professors tend to automate more tedious and routine work, including financial and administrative tasks.—
Lee V. Gaines,
NPR,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The truth is incredibly uninteresting because the magic is kind of within.—
Brittany Spanos,
Rolling Stone,
16 Oct. 2025
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Saddled with an uninteresting jerk half the time and a muzzled non-entity the other half, there’s only a handful of moments in the first six episodes where Powell’s star power shines through.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Anyone who suggests Guardiola’s title-winning Manchester City teams were boring should be forced to watch 90 minutes of Mourinho’s Chelsea versus Rafael Benitez’s Liverpool in the mid-2000s and report back.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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The details might be boring, but the gathering of money—searching gem dealers, gold dealers—was a full-time job.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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They're usually stifled by monotonous or isolated work.—
William Vanderbloemen,
CNBC,
7 Oct. 2025
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His career as a digital modeler at Kia made his daily commute monotonous, prompting him to explore alternative aerial vehicles.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Esmail seems too enamored of his own (tiresome) visions of Nifty Things That Might Happen During an Apocalypse to actually bother fleshing any of these characters out.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
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The Barcelona delegate, as portrayed by an overly ceceando Mikey Day, suggested skipping the tiresome lecture, only to be taken off camera to be beheaded.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
4 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Were the subject banal or frivolous, the approach would offer no more than one caper after another.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
7 Oct. 2025
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Even on a slightly more banal level, there’s a singular buzz to sparking off an existing song at a game.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Unrewarding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrewarding. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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