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

Overall, with most paintings bland, unadventurous or ungainly, he just isn’t that good — perhaps unsurprising for a serious career that didn’t last much more than a decade.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2025

She found the men she dated in Denver after her divorce to be unadventurous.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2023

And how many, now the first to adopt his watchword, would not jump at the chance to emulate his deed in another fifteen unadventurous years!

From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)