as in unspectacular
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Recent Examples of undramatic
A lot of change is undramatic growth, transformation, or decay, or rather its timescale means the drama might not be perceptible to the impatient.
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Krista Stevens, Longreads, 24 Jan. 2024
If his family life was grounded and undramatic, his imaginative life was something like the opposite.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024
Known for its delicate texture and undramatic look, this pie exudes old-school Southern class and charm.
—Micah A Leal, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2023
Fukuyama looked to the future a little mournfully, seeing a gray, undramatic expanse—a tableau for technocrats.
—William MacAskill, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2022
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Krista Stevens, Longreads, 24 Jan. 2024
If his family life was grounded and undramatic, his imaginative life was something like the opposite.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024
Known for its delicate texture and undramatic look, this pie exudes old-school Southern class and charm.
—Micah A Leal, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2023
Fukuyama looked to the future a little mournfully, seeing a gray, undramatic expanse—a tableau for technocrats.
—William MacAskill, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2022
See All Example Sentences for undramatic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undramatic
Adjective
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Such unspectacular reliability is becoming less valued by teams.—
Jerry Beach,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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He was acquired in a pick-swap deal that reflected his middling value as a solid, but unspectacular player, in a contract year.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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With the exception of the two men who provide the film with its ridiculously unexciting love triangle, everyone in Alex’s orbit is one-dimensional and uninteresting.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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Another way of saying it: these companies generally are boring, unexciting and keep to themselves for the most part.—
John Navin,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The rest of it wasn’t just boring or uneventful, but pretty sad.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Mainland China had a fairly uneventful day bouncing around the room with utilities underperforming.—
Brendan Ahern,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But its most striking characteristic, now that the media is completely oversaturated with violent murders and courtroom dramas, is that De Lestrade’s work is so straightforward and unsensational.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
8 June 2018
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Robinson, whose credits include The L Word and True Blood, approaches the story in such a low-key, unsensational way that the trio's beyond-bohemian arrangement is barely eyebrow-raising.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
12 Oct. 2017
Adjective
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Higher education advisor Dan Ulin of Elite Student Coach in Los Angeles, California says downsides of unrewarding advanced degrees can extend far beyond the potential for long-term student loan debt and being thrust into an industry with limited (or no) growth potential.—
Robert Farrington,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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The big problem is that social media is unrewarding.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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With the exception of the two men who provide the film with its ridiculously unexciting love triangle, everyone in Alex’s orbit is one-dimensional and uninteresting.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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Many commenters on Korean Air’s social media profiles said the new livery is bland and uninteresting and lacks the sense of national identity that the older version had.—
Zach Wichter,
USA TODAY,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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Anything that isn’t someone bleeding out is boring to them, that kind of thing.—
Maria Fontoura,
Rolling Stone,
5 Apr. 2025
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But here, it’s all viewed through a workplace-comedy format, which captures the kind of boring ordinariness of typical medical care while also getting at some of the big frustrations of understaffing.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
3 Apr. 2025
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“Undramatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undramatic. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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