unoriginal
Example Sentences
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“The choice was so heroic and unoriginal that it left them forever after with a feeling of gaping vacuity,” he writes.
From New York Times
Rather it’s a bland, unoriginal action thriller about an entirely predictable quest for revenge.
From New York Times
It sounds like the premise of an unoriginal horror film: Human beings meddle with the environment to satisfy their own greed, and accidentally unleash a scourge of disgusting bloodsucking insects.
From Salon
U2, he explained, were originally supposed to be called The Hype, but ditched that plan as the name sounded unoriginal.
From BBC
So they’re still unoriginal, just in a slightly more well-rounded way.
From New York Times
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