unadventurous

Example Sentences

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It’s not that the art is bad, but much of it feels unadventurous or like reheated versions of earlier, more groundbreaking projects.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

This win and the much-improved first-half performance was still not enough to change their view, with a return to a more conservative and unadventurous display in the second half a cause for frustration.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

This unadventurous pursuit entails imitating its characters’ details, costumes and color palette to mimic, as closely as possible, what the audience is already familiar with.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2022

To entice novice concertgoers, ECM isn’t falling back on the tried-and-true, under the assumption that a new listener is an unadventurous, easily frightened-off listener.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2022

I wandered transported about Cathedral and close, and became aware then of how strangely unadventurous in the matter of exploration one had always been as a boy.

From Joyous Gard by Benson, Arthur Christopher