untalented

Example Sentences

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“Could an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism?”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2025

The Sundance-ification of Hollywood coalesced with Chris Smith’s shrewd heartbreaker of a doc about an untalented dreamer, which premiered at the festival in 1999.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2024

Edebiri delivers the "ugly and untalented" phrase with absolute neutrality, as if PJ and Josie have accepted that these are their defining characteristics.

From Salon • Sep. 4, 2023

The joke is not so much that Jay is, according to Bran, “a supremely untalented dancer,” but that mainstream artists are inherently more terrible.

From Washington Post • May 27, 2022

I could be off there by three o’clock with my sketch-book and pencil, and I told him as much, a little shyly perhaps, like all untalented persons with a pet hobby.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier