unromantic

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Recent Examples of unromantic The system is simple, if unromantic: One partner proposes through the app, and the other is sent a notification. Chris Stokel-Walker, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024 But engagement is often seen as a highly emotional and symbolic act and asking the recipient to sign a legal document in connection with receiving the ring may feel transactional or unromantic. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024 There are some unromantic reasons why fall can smell so intoxicating. Lauren Mazzo, SELF, 8 Oct. 2024 Camille Peri’s engrossing A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson recounts in some detail the very unromantic odyssey that led Fanny to her meeting with Louis. Phyllis Rose, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for unromantic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unromantic
Adjective
  • Matchmaking has granted Lucy a coolly pragmatic, unsentimental view of love.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
  • This is graceful, quietly intelligent filmmaking—including a touch of unsentimental magic realism involving a wise and beautiful Norwegian Forest Cat.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • Neymar’s departure left Al Hilal as the logical Saudi landing spot for Mohamed Salah this summer, but the Egyptian’s decision to sign a two-year extension with Liverpool in April scuppered Plan A.
    Liam Twomey, New York Times, 18 June 2025
  • While nothing is set in stone yet, this weekend would be the most logical time.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • Too often, leaders are stuck between moral maximalism and cynical cost-cutting.
    HEC Paris Insights, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • Mamdani proposes to pay for these splendid gifts to the city’s voters by raising taxes even further on the city’s top income earners, in the cynical belief that those who make up his tax base are stuck there, cannot flee, and are thus cows to be helplessly milked.
    The Editors, National Review, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • President Donald Trump’s court challenge failed during his first term because his administration did not provide the U.S. Supreme Court with a rational government basis for terminating the program.
    Darren Soto, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2025
  • The court's majority found that Tennessee's law is not subject to a heightened level of judicial review and satisfies the most deferential standard, known as rational basis.
    June 18, CBS News, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • My students’ affront felt as sensible to me as expecting anatomy classes to flag each splay of flesh.
    erin Khuê Ninh June 17, Literary Hub, 17 June 2025
  • Assuming the Guardians don’t chase down the Tigers and assert themselves as a juggernaut over the next six weeks, the most sensible method of buying would be an opportunistic move to address an issue not just for 2025, but for the future.
    Zack Meisel, New York Times, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • Recent verdicts have far exceeded historical benchmarks, and without reasonable limits, runaway jury awards threaten the city’s ability to fund essential services.
    Paul Vallas, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025
  • Conrad is a 6-3 defenseman who can skate and has shown reasonable offense in the Q.
    Corey Pronman, New York Times, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • At times, the Administration seemed to be testing how much destruction Americans would tolerate, if it was packaged as tough-minded business wisdom.
    Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
  • Everyone in the studio nods along to Paco’s tough-minded flexes and mafioso folktales.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • No sane person would throw money out the window carelessly.
    Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2025
  • No sane sailing event would choose to hold a competition on the waters of Upper New York Bay, although Formula One probably shouldn’t stage a grand prix on the narrow streets of Monaco, either.
    Andrew Rice, New York Times, 7 June 2025

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“Unromantic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unromantic. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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