zestless

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for zestless
Adjective
  • Brazil were insipid at last summer’s Copa America and have gone downhill since.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • Little Dog asks, an insipid comparison that illuminates only the fungibility of abstract nouns.
    Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 6 May 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Organizations that foster a culture of self-compassion can empower their employees to better navigate stress, maintain their well-being, and - perhaps boring but no less important - adhere to safety protocols.
    Ellen Choi, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • Scottie Scheffler ran away with The Memorial Tournament on Sunday in a somewhat predictable outcome.
    Troy Finnegan‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 June 2025
  • People experience this feeling with rhythms that are somewhat predictable, but not too predictable.
    Eva Amsen, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • In the Colorado River Basin, April and May were very dry.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2025
  • These innocuous-seeming actions can kindle dry vegetation, potentially spawning a wildfire.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • The young Andrii’s first thought was this tedious job should to be done by a robot.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • But tasteless fruit, likely results from a lack of nitrogen and phosphorous in the soil.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The tree secretes gum arabic—a tasteless, nontoxic, pale-white or orange-brown sap that may be harvested at the end of the rainy season in sub-Saharan Africa.
    Erik Zou, JSTOR Daily, 25 Apr. 2025
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“Zestless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zestless. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.

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