uninventive
Example Sentences
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His paintings were considered uninventive and consequently ignored.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
But where “Inventing Anna” insists on fidelity to real life, it’s annoying, such as in Garner’s uninventive portrayal of Anna.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2022
Next to Durham and Cincinnati, L.A. might have seemed uncharacteristically uninventive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2016
Not only is this a close repetition of other corporate attempts to dodge regulation, it's actually so uninventive that VW was caught and fined in 1973 for dodging similar tests.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2015
Reasoning upon these data by the light of classic texts, may afterwards enable us to assign him his true place in the Pantheon of decadent and uninventive Paganism.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds
