uninventive

Example Sentences

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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

The production, by the director David McVicar, is uninventive and safe.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2011

Or, say Phyllis comes to-morrow: will an uninventive sun dare to rise in the old, hackneyed fashion on such a day of days?

From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by Cabell, James Branch