as in unexciting
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Recent Examples of unrewarding
Automation enables human workers to opt out of repetitive tasks that are physically taxing but otherwise unrewarding.
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Massimo Bizzi, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
The 10 wave playlist mode is boring, short and unrewarding.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
Some or all of the Arab countries involved would likely demand that Israel halt settlement expansion on the West Bank or make other concessions to the Palestinians as the price of their participation in a difficult and unrewarding mission.
—Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
Cerebral men of letters often make unrewarding screen protagonists, spending too much time in their own heads to fully engage as characters.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Massimo Bizzi, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
The 10 wave playlist mode is boring, short and unrewarding.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
Some or all of the Arab countries involved would likely demand that Israel halt settlement expansion on the West Bank or make other concessions to the Palestinians as the price of their participation in a difficult and unrewarding mission.
—Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
Cerebral men of letters often make unrewarding screen protagonists, spending too much time in their own heads to fully engage as characters.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrewarding
Adjective
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Vodka is all-too-often written off as an unexciting category of spirit.—
Brad Japhe,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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Producers love an unexciting telecast, but audiences are hungry for the kind of raw emotion and drama that populates the films that win the awards.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA TODAY,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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To that point in his career, Nesmith had put together an uninspiring two-year run with the Celtics – averaging just 4.2 PPG and shooting just 31.8% from downtown.—
Mat Issa,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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After the thrill of a first Premier League title in 2011-12, Roberto Mancini’s fourth and final season managing Manchester City fell flat, as an uninspiring group of summer additions — including Jack Rodwell, Scott Sinclair and a 31-year-old Maicon — failed to build on the previous year’s success.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
17 May 2025
Adjective
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The young Andrii’s first thought was this tedious job should to be done by a robot.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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But during a 2017 appearance at a conference in China, Cook expressed doubt about whether the U.S. labor pool had enough workers with the vocational skills required to do the painstaking and tedious work that Lutnick was discussing.—
Michael Liedtke,
Chicago Tribune,
23 May 2025
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The first act is genuinely atrocious, a mess of story threads revolving around an uninteresting villain in the AI Entity that feels far too downbeat and sad for this franchise.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
23 May 2025
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What remains consistent is the splendid topography of Frazier’s prose, and the sense throughout his work that there are, in fact, no uninteresting places, just uninteresting writers.—
The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
15 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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As a small-market team, for the majority of my life, Indiana has been looked at as boring or whatever the case may be.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
20 May 2025
Adjective
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People with autism may unintentionally use monotonous, robotic speech that sounds abnormal or disinterested to others.—
Anna Giorgi,
Verywell Health,
14 May 2025
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At Alcatraz, prisoners had a highly structured, monotonous daily routine.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
5 May 2025
Adjective
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One of the tiresome aspects of this new-world college football era is fans of opposing schools asserting that players bypassed their school only because of an NIL payout from another school.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
14 May 2025
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The marketing around their rematch (which ended in a tiresome double disqualification) was a poor omen for Savage vs. DiBiase.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The opening moments cement its tonal dissonance as, with a twang of Daniel Kowalski’s spare, uneasy score, a brief prologue with fire, a flailing figure and mutterings about Satan snaps to a far more banal view of an empty street lined with dim, shuttered houses under a low, gray sky.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
30 May 2025
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In general, this case presents no special facts or legal circumstances, only the banal horror of a man being wrongfully loaded onto a bus and sent back to a county where he was allegedly just raped and kidnapped.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 May 2025
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“Unrewarding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrewarding. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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