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Recent Examples of unromantic
Darcy goes running after Elizabeth in the rain…and then proposes to her in quite a clumsy and unromantic way?
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Marley Marius, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2025
Unforgiven recasts the genre as a pitiless, almost pathologically unromantic realm populated by twits hoping to make their name and aged gunslingers who have to make peace with their bad pasts.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
The imagination can’t be bothered with unromantic minutiae.
—Kevin Chroust, Outside Online, 5 Feb. 2025
But if Naples’s gaudy decadence is hot on social media, the city is also experiencing a much more unromantic, enduring and crude degradation that is engulfing the youth from its poorer quarters.
—Gianni Cipriano, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
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Marley Marius, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2025
Unforgiven recasts the genre as a pitiless, almost pathologically unromantic realm populated by twits hoping to make their name and aged gunslingers who have to make peace with their bad pasts.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
The imagination can’t be bothered with unromantic minutiae.
—Kevin Chroust, Outside Online, 5 Feb. 2025
But if Naples’s gaudy decadence is hot on social media, the city is also experiencing a much more unromantic, enduring and crude degradation that is engulfing the youth from its poorer quarters.
—Gianni Cipriano, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unromantic
Adjective
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The film’s empathetic interest in individual, often eccentric human lives gives it a warmth that overrides the underlying melancholy of the material, making for a pleasingly unsentimental crowdpleaser.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2026
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That unsentimental spirit has always drawn me to Rivera’s work.—
Sammy Loren,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Top- and bottom-line results in the fourth quarter also topped expectations.—
Liz Napolitano,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2026
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The top- and bottom-line numbers exceeded Wall Street analysts’ consensus expectations.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
23 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Read it and explain to me, in detail, every flaw in my argument, every logical inconsistency, and every way my evidence is weak.—
Vivienne Ming,
CNBC,
24 Mar. 2026
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This is the logical, expedient, correct thing to do.—
Barbara Sprunt,
NPR,
24 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Ursula has a big-picture understanding of the way the world works that’s cynical if not entirely inaccurate.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2026
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Movies grew darker, more cynical, more reflective of national anxiety—not necessarily because oil prices demanded it, but because the mood of a country grappling with Vietnam and political upheaval did.—
Maxwell Adler,
Vanity Fair,
19 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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If more teams have lottery access and the worst teams don’t gain much by being the worst, then more franchises can justify late-season losing as a rational move.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
27 Mar. 2026
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Condemning Israel for its treatment of Palestinian dreams and aspirations is a rational choice.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Some ideas are so commonsensical that government is the last to adopt them.—
Editorial Board,
Washington Post,
9 Mar. 2026
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The film is full of such commonsensical insights about people and their affairs.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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From an ecological or evolutionary perspective, those same decisions can look adaptive, efficient and sensible given the environments in which they are made.—
Alejandro Hortal-Sánchez,
The Conversation,
24 Mar. 2026
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Just team it with a pair of wide-leg pants and a trench coat for a luxe workwear ensemble in an instant, then add a touch of monochromatic contrast with a black tote bag and sensible granny heels.—
Clare Holden,
Glamour,
23 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The Marlins under this owner have no reasonable way out of this rut of building on the cheap toward a future that never gets here.—
Greg Cote
Updated March 27,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2026
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Claims against the bank of negligent failure to prevent physical harm and reasonable care as a banking institution, and aiding and abetting trafficking violations in the initial complaint, were dismissed by Rakoff in mid-February.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
28 Mar. 2026
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“Unromantic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unromantic. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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