as in unexciting
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Recent Examples of unrewarding
Cerebral men of letters often make unrewarding screen protagonists, spending too much time in their own heads to fully engage as characters.
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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
Baseball is a cruel, often unrewarding, game of inches.
—Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 10 June 2023
Strategic incompetence is not necessarily a conscious choice so much as a reflexive rejection of activity that feels unrewarding and unimportant.
—Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
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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
Baseball is a cruel, often unrewarding, game of inches.
—Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 10 June 2023
Strategic incompetence is not necessarily a conscious choice so much as a reflexive rejection of activity that feels unrewarding and unimportant.
—Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrewarding
Adjective
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Economists were expecting Wednesday’s report to be fairly unexciting, with barely any change from December’s data.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN,
12 Feb. 2025
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Performance looks unexciting and the range is more like EVs from four years ago, making this more of a city or suburban runaround with commuting capabilities, rather than the car for that family holiday road trip.—
James Morris,
Forbes,
7 Dec. 2024
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Dallas owner Jerry Jones doesn’t strike confidence in his fan base, especially with this week’s uninspiring hire of Brian Schottenheimer.—
Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
8 Feb. 2025
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Reinsdorf surely knew any negative fan reaction the Bulls would receive for an uninspiring haul for LaVine would pale in comparison with the pounding the Mavericks were taking for dealing Dončić in his prime.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Casting for Battlefield Surya admitted that casting for This City is a Battlefield was a long and tedious process.—
Sara Merican,
Deadline,
8 Feb. 2025
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But even after that planeload arrived at El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, the Colombian capital, on Tuesday, passengers were caught up in long and tedious inspections at airports in Florida.—
Simón Posada,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2025
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Manager Gareth Southgate has been under pressure for the English being defensive and mostly uninteresting to watch, but the results have been good enough.—
Dan Santaromita,
The Athletic,
10 July 2024
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The path that was designed for her was uninteresting to her.—
Adam Moss,
Vulture,
19 Dec. 2024
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Harris, the narrator’s husband: Paul Mescal or Nick Kroll Can Ireland's sexiest chain-wearer reinvent himself as a boring straight guy who's not entirely fulfilling his wife?—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2025
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From awful ads to a divisive halftime show to a boring game, 10 things to forget.—
Brad Biggs,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Much of our modern architecture is monotonous, repetitive and without character.—
Kay Johnson,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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What seemed like innovative movement mechanics in 3D is stifled by repetitive, confusing level design with its monotonous mazes.—
Joel Thayer,
Newsweek,
26 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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That was a core part of the original series and the sibling rivalry stuff can get tiresome pretty quickly.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
20 Dec. 2024
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Loud, tiresome and half-baked, the off-kilter hilarity and attempts at sentimentality aren’t given much clearance to land, causing the emotional overtones to feel unearned.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
29 Jan. 2025
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One of the things that spoke to us about this process in particular is, there was something about the twisting of the rules, the almost banal cruelty of the unfairness of it.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
11 Feb. 2025
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This time around, though, so many folks have posted the same quotes to the point that the brilliant is becoming banal.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Jan. 2025
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“Unrewarding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrewarding. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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