unrewarding

Example Sentences

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“Golf is kind of unrewarding in this sense where, you can be putting a lot of work into it, but the results might not show right away,” Hruby said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2024

New cast member Chloe Troast does great work, too, in the unrewarding role of the mocked white girlfriend.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2023

She has previously talked about growing up in "rural poverty" in Gloucestershire and taking on a "myriad of low-paid, unrewarding jobs".

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2023

Maddie stands at the center of what is essentially a dissolving home, sending money to her mother, tending to her father and working a dull, unrewarding job at a theater company.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2023

Sadly he lay down by an unrewarding blueberry bush, drew his paws down tightly over his blackened face, then licked the dirt off them.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford