Thesaurus / unoriginal
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It was a good letter, unoriginal and typical in its lack of grumbling and rather artificial cheerfulness.
HAPPY HOUSEBETSEY RIDDLE, FREIFRAU VON HUTTEN ZUM STOLZENBERG
Scarcely a phrase in his operas and songs moves in a conventional or unoriginal curve.
MUSICAL PORTRAITSPAUL ROSENFELD
Does it occur to you, Julius, how hopelessly unoriginal we are, how we all follow in the same beaten track?
THE HISTORY OF SIR RICHARD CALMADYLUCAS MALET
Nor were they wholly unoriginal in their endeavours to make him feel at home in his new surroundings.
FOLLOW MY LEADERTALBOT BAINES REED
Everything in its proper time and season, he added, with the unoriginal mans fondness for proverbial philosophy.
MRS. CRADDOCKW. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
And the laugh which greeted this very unoriginal observation closed the conversation for a time.
THE WILLOUGHBY CAPTAINSTALBOT BAINES REED
The advertising writer is the most unoriginal creature imaginable.
POST-IMPRESSIONSSIMEON STRUNSKY
Yet one would be loath to approve his arguments, unoriginal as they are.
THE MEDIAEVAL MIND (VOLUME I OF II)HENRY OSBORN TAYLOR
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
There also Leonardo came into contact with that unoriginal painter Lorenzo di Credi, his junior by seven years.
LEONARDO DA VINCIMAURICE W. BROCKWELL
WORDS RELATED TO UNORIGINAL
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- chain
- cliched
- cliché
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- overused
- overworked
- pedestrian
- platitudinal
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stereotypical
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- warmed-over
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- chain
- cliched
- cliché
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- overused
- overworked
- pedestrian
- platitudinal
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stereotypic
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- warmed-over
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- chain
- cliché
- clichéd
- common
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- pedestrian
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- warmed-over
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
- antiseptic
- arid
- aseptic
- bare
- barren
- bleak
- dead
- decontaminated
- desert
- desolate
- dry
- effete
- empty
- fallow
- fruitless
- futile
- gaunt
- germ-free
- hygienic
- impotent
- infecund
- infertile
- pasteurized
- sanitary
- septic
- sterilized
- unfruitful
- unimaginative
- uninfected
- uninspired
- uninventive
- unoriginal
- unprofitable
- unprolific
- vain
- waste
- without issue
- antiseptic
- arid
- aseptic
- bare
- barren
- bleak
- dead
- decontaminated
- desert
- desolate
- dry
- effete
- empty
- fallow
- fruitless
- futile
- gaunt
- germ-free
- hygienic
- impotent
- infecund
- infertile
- pasteurized
- sanitary
- septic
- sterilized
- uncreative
- unfruitful
- unimaginative
- uninfected
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- unprofitable
- unprolific
- vain
- waste
- without issue
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- chain
- cliched
- cliché
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- overused
- overworked
- pedestrian
- platitudinal
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stereotypic
- stereotypical
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
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