as in unimaginative
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Recent Examples of uncreative
If a business has been operating with loose controls and has been allowing creativity to be deployed against uncreative things, then stop.
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Megan Poinski, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
Like, for instance, this film is made using a very primitive and uncreative mise en scene.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Closed, communist societies, such as the Soviet Union, had shown themselves to be too uncreative and unproductive to compete economically and militarily with liberal states.
—Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2014
That being said, the chorus is a bit uncreative and repetitive.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 22 July 2024
Upgraded felt stale, generic, and uncreative, and as a Brazilian-Colombian critic, that hurts.
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—Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 11 Feb. 2024
Despite the ample evidence that A.I. could pose a threat to a handful of repetitive, uncreative roles, most workers aren’t shaken up—yet.
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2023
While this approach is exactly what has made TikTok such a success, Threads can choose an unfortunate, uncreative mix of posts.
—Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
His style was a relatively uncreative, but decidedly popular mix of not-quite-rapping and not-quite-singing.
—Joshua Medintz, The Enquirer, 5 July 2023
Megan Poinski, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
Like, for instance, this film is made using a very primitive and uncreative mise en scene.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Closed, communist societies, such as the Soviet Union, had shown themselves to be too uncreative and unproductive to compete economically and militarily with liberal states.
—Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2014
That being said, the chorus is a bit uncreative and repetitive.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 22 July 2024
Upgraded felt stale, generic, and uncreative, and as a Brazilian-Colombian critic, that hurts.
Want more?
—Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 11 Feb. 2024
Despite the ample evidence that A.I. could pose a threat to a handful of repetitive, uncreative roles, most workers aren’t shaken up—yet.
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2023
While this approach is exactly what has made TikTok such a success, Threads can choose an unfortunate, uncreative mix of posts.
—Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
His style was a relatively uncreative, but decidedly popular mix of not-quite-rapping and not-quite-singing.
—Joshua Medintz, The Enquirer, 5 July 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncreative
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Strict and unimaginative gender norms were alive and well, and Weight Watchers was for the ladies (calories, of course, have no gender.—
John DeVore,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2025
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These hotels are, at their worst, sites of literal death, and at best, gilded cages for the unimaginative.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
17 Feb. 2025
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The puzzles and platforming are forgettable and unoriginal.—
G Kirilloff,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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But his unoriginal storytelling undermines the novel’s moral complication.—
Lily Meyer,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2025
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Thoughtless, uninspired new apartments and houses are sucking the soul out of our communities.—
Edward Keegan,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Apr. 2025
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With both wrestlers imminently departing the company, a palpable lack of enthusiasm permeated the match, resulting in a sluggish, uninspired affair.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
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But for years, eight or nine of the roughly 10 sketches each week have been expected, uninventive, rote duds.—
Zak Jason,
Wired,
21 May 2021
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The earnest but uninventive special suffers from a lack of electrifying performances that have defined past ceremonies, with rousing crowd favorites and inspired team-ups between inductees and newer artists.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA TODAY,
7 Nov. 2020
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“Uncreative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncreative. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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