passionless

Example Sentences

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I refuse to discredit an immediate connection with someone as inherently dangerous and resign myself to passionless dating and relationships because “boring” is good and safe.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2024

Interactions between characters feel hollow, no matter how well-lit or well-cast the scenes are, with a passionless non-ending that has little of substance to say about the period or its social morés.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2022

Their relationship is adrift and passionless, and the stranger seems to know it, “messaging her from the shadows and keeping his identity hidden while he judged her, exposed her.”

From Washington Post • May 27, 2021

Vanilla can mean anything from “without a power dynamic” to simply passionless.

From Slate • May 6, 2021

The scandal sheets and tattlers call her icy and passionless.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton