unsexy

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Recent Examples of unsexy Plunkett was the unsung hero of that England team, the man who bowled the unsexy middle overs and invariably picked up crucial wickets: three of which came in the final, during that extraordinary win over New Zealand. Nick Miller, New York Times, 29 July 2025 The problem is that most of the changes from the Switch to the Switch 2 are unsexy quality-of-life improvements, which are hard to get an audience excited about. Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 11 June 2025 As far as bright ideas go, taming food waste remains a bit unsexy. Jen Rose Smith, AFAR Media, 27 May 2025 Of the slow, unsexy work of loving someone even in the worst times. Ruhama Wolle, Glamour, 10 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unsexy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsexy
unerotic
Adjective
  • The director Ninja Thyberg’s new film is graphic yet deeply unerotic.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 May 2022
  • Holbein was sensitive but cautiously unerotic in picturing women, who are usually sombre.
    Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022

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“Unsexy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsexy. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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