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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 STOLZENBERGScarcely a phrase in his operas and songs moves in a conventional or unoriginal curve.
MUSICAL PORTRAITSPAUL ROSENFELDDoes 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 MALETNor were they wholly unoriginal in their endeavours to make him feel at home in his new surroundings.
FOLLOW MY LEADERTALBOT BAINES REEDEverything in its proper time and season, he added, with the unoriginal mans fondness for proverbial philosophy.
MRS. CRADDOCKW. SOMERSET MAUGHAMAnd the laugh which greeted this very unoriginal observation closed the conversation for a time.
THE WILLOUGHBY CAPTAINSTALBOT BAINES REEDThe advertising writer is the most unoriginal creature imaginable.
POST-IMPRESSIONSSIMEON STRUNSKYYet one would be loath to approve his arguments, unoriginal as they are.
THE MEDIAEVAL MIND (VOLUME I OF II)HENRY OSBORN TAYLOROriginality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS FROM ANCIENT AND MODERN, ENGLISH AND FOREIGN SOURCESJAMES WOODThere also Leonardo came into contact with that unoriginal painter Lorenzo di Credi, his junior by seven years.
LEONARDO DA VINCIMAURICE W. BROCKWELLWORDS RELATED TO UNORIGINAL
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- moth-eaten
- musty
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