unimaginative
Example Sentences
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It is possible that thinking is unimaginative, too dead to the urgency of the moment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
It is the sort of thing late-night comedians caricature when they want to illustrate unimaginative gift-giving.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
The rookie needs help from his coaches, who have failed him with unimaginative play designs that have often times left him running for cover without any checkdown options.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2023
"Plodding, genre-hopping songs all end up as unimaginative ballads, their dreary lyrics littered with gibberish - though Sheeran's hooks remain strong," she wrote.
From BBC • Oct. 6, 2023
Instead, the Brazilians looked at the fourth main haplogroup—Haplogroup A is its unimaginative name—which is almost completely absent from Siberia but found in every Native American population.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.