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

The best that can be said for the officers in charge is that they were unimaginative, by-the-book commanders overwhelmed by their responsibilities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Rich criticized the unimaginative set design that made “Emerald City looks like a honeymoon suite at a Las Vegas hotel” and said that the cast contained “not a single performer who can act.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024

"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

He thought perhaps she was dozing off; it had to be why she was not talking about somebody’s ghastly dress or the unimaginative hors d’oeuvres that had been served.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie