as in unexciting
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Recent Examples of unrewarding
The 10 wave playlist mode is boring, short and unrewarding.
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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
But if long Covid is really a form of ME/CFS, this approach will likely be unrewarding.
—Steven Phillips, STAT, 14 Sep. 2023
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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
But if long Covid is really a form of ME/CFS, this approach will likely be unrewarding.
—Steven Phillips, STAT, 14 Sep. 2023
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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
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The 28-year-old put up similarly uninspiring numbers over 11 games at Triple-A.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
1 May 2025
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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.—
Nick Ashbourne,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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Most of these events are tedious, rote, and often virtual.—
Maria Aspan,
NPR,
3 May 2025
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Yet managers and leaders often struggle with how to help their employees find more meaningful moments in their work, especially when the tasks they are assigned are boring, mundane and tedious.—
Rachel Pacheco,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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Educating Entrepreneurs: Intrinsic Motivation And Engagement A significant hurdle in traditional educational contexts is fostering intrinsic motivation, particularly when students perceive assignments as irrelevant or uninteresting.—
Ray Ravaglia,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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This is incisive and great, getting at uninteresting people misappropriating culture and being lame ironists.—
Andy Hoglund,
EW.com,
9 Mar. 2025
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The Salon Clutch Structured yet theatrical, Le Salon is Jacquemus’s answer to the evening clutch—pared back, but never boring.—
Lilah Ramzi,
Vogue,
10 May 2025
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Robinson stars as Craig Waterman, a regular suburban guy with a boring job, a charming florist wife who's losing interest in him (Kate Mara), and a teenage son (Jack Dylan Grazer) whose indifference borders on hostility.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
9 May 2025
Adjective
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Through technologies like virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, this platform gives users the ability to create dynamic, multi-sensory career portfolios that go beyond basic bullet points and monotonous bios.—
Janice Gassam Asare,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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The city’s turbulent 20th-century history is visible in the bullet holes on facades, the graffitied remains of the Berlin Wall and the monotonous residential blocks erected during the post-World War II reconstruction.—
Valeriya Safronova,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
Adjective
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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
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Naturally, you’re being manipulated the whole time to keep you watching, as tiresome as the characters can become over the series’ several hours.—
Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Apr. 2025
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The internet has encouraged only more comparison, and more consternation—more places to argue, more pressure to make even the most banal parts of our lives beautiful.—
Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
14 Apr. 2025
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Beyond that, this is a ridiculously byzantine framework to apply to something as banal as plumbing fixture flow rates.—
The Editors,
National Review,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Unrewarding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrewarding. Accessed 17 May. 2025.
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