nonexotic

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Adjective
  • To be fair to les frères Dardennes, there is a reliable level of unshowy competence as well as an integrity to their insistence on embedding with unglamorous, recognizable people.
    Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 23 May 2025
  • But a part of humanizing us has to be rooted in the mundane and unglamorous, too.
    Taryn Finley, Refinery29, 14 May 2025
Adjective
  • Darcy goes running after Elizabeth in the rain…and then proposes to her in quite a clumsy and unromantic way?
    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
Adjective
  • Even on a dusty tarmac with the car riding on decidedly unexotic Michelin Pilot Sport 4S summer tires (the same rubber that was used to set its official 0–60 and quarter-mile times), the Nevera leapt off the line without a hint of wheelspin.
    Bradley Iger, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Benefit’s popular cherry-red Benetint started life in 1976 as a nipple stain made for exotic dancers out of rose petals and carmine and later commercialized for the unexotic rest of us.
    Linda Wells, Town & Country, 16 Apr. 2021
Adjective
  • The latter star has landed a number of hits throughout the past few years by repurposing melodies and interpolating hooks from older, familiar smashes by other artists, reworking them into something exciting and new for a different audience.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
  • Absence of treatment is not absence of illness, of course, but given how much time Gauguin spent in hospitals, that such a familiar disease would have been missed seems unlikely.
    Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 30 May 2025
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“Nonexotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonexotic. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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