as in grey
not causing people to want to do or create something
an uninspiring public speaker The landscape was dreary and uninspiring.
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Recent Examples of uninspiring
Despite allowing an ugly early goal, Joseph Woll was sturdy enough to keep them in the game, but the final score flattered Toronto’s uninspiring effort.
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Nick Ashbourne, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
The Islanders have had to mine the middle rounds for prospects these last seven seasons as Lamoriello has traded the team’s first-round pick four times and, despite some of the uninspiring results at the NHL level, the Isles haven’t picked in the top 10 in Lamoriello’s time here.
—Arthur Staple, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025
Citizen Bull was an early favorite for the Derby, but a disappointing and uninspiring fourth in the Santa Anita Derby made people look elsewhere.
—John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2025
The pressure on the Colts’ general manager has never been greater — especially after an uninspiring 2024 left the Colts out of the playoffs for the sixth time in Ballard’s eight seasons.
—Zak Keefer, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
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Nick Ashbourne, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
The Islanders have had to mine the middle rounds for prospects these last seven seasons as Lamoriello has traded the team’s first-round pick four times and, despite some of the uninspiring results at the NHL level, the Isles haven’t picked in the top 10 in Lamoriello’s time here.
—Arthur Staple, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025
Citizen Bull was an early favorite for the Derby, but a disappointing and uninspiring fourth in the Santa Anita Derby made people look elsewhere.
—John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2025
The pressure on the Colts’ general manager has never been greater — especially after an uninspiring 2024 left the Colts out of the playoffs for the sixth time in Ballard’s eight seasons.
—Zak Keefer, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uninspiring
Adjective
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Though adidas has recently dropped the Tokyo in metallic and neon colorways, this leather-and-suede version featuring a muted grey body is, in our eyes, a more adaptable choice.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
21 May 2025
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The officer saw a grey Cybertruck on fire, with an unbroken Molotov cocktail in an apple cider vinegar bottle lying nearby.—
PJ Green,
Kansas City Star,
16 May 2025
Adjective
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Belief that your institution is exempt from the hard, functional and often boring parts of the job leads to a slow decline.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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One ideal that rung loudly at the presentation was that these students were unafraid to dream–rather than send designs down the runway that felt truncated, trendy or downright boring, the student designers chose an opposite route.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
20 May 2025
Adjective
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My skin was pallid, and lesions covered the inside of my mouth.—
Suleika Jaouad,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2025
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The paintings are brushy and pallid, seemingly hinting at a dissatisfaction with commodified products such as these.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Massa is slender and just 5 feet tall in her work boots, with strands of gray lightening her dark hair.—
Tribune News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 May 2025
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Milgrim on Thursday morning sat in his Prairie Village living room, wearing a gray sweatshirt from his daughter’s college alma mater, the University of Kansas, as the doorbell rang and friends, clergy and media came to their door.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
23 May 2025
Adjective
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Recently, 26 previously unknown bacterial species were discovered in NASA clean rooms — some of the most sterile places humanity has built, designed to prevent spacecraft from carrying unwanted microbes to other planetary bodies.—
Andrew Jones,
Space.com,
21 May 2025
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Of long drives and sterile sheets, trapped in tiny spaces with your thoughts.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
18 May 2025
Adjective
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Flying by the active asteroid could show exactly what processes are creating the dusty tails streaming from the object and might reveal possibilities scientists haven’t even considered, Kareta said.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
28 May 2025
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The dry, dusty air can weaken or block hurricane formation.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 May 2025
Adjective
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Former New College student Katie Helms, 47, got emotional when remembering her old mentor.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
25 May 2025
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Needless to say, building Hotel Emma out of the old Pearl Brewery was a massive undertaking, and its owner, Silver Ventures, made several sustainable choices during construction.—
Mae Hamilton,
Travel + Leisure,
24 May 2025
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These innocuous-seeming actions can kindle dry vegetation, potentially spawning a wildfire.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
30 May 2025
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In the Colorado River Basin, April and May were very dry.—
Ian James,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2025
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“Uninspiring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uninspiring. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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