one-note

[ wuhn-noht ]

adjective

1. lacking in variety; monotonous.

Example Sentences

“My concern going into the show was that it was going to be a one-note character, which wasn’t that interesting to me,” Proksch said.

From Los Angeles Times

Almut cringes at the idea of being commemorated in such a one-note fashion.

From Los Angeles Times

She came prepared to explain her organization’s experience with hate crimes and research on the issue, yet the 72-year-old Louisiana senator used his question time to launch into a hostile, one-note line of inquiry that was more about foreign policy than the domestic issue at hand.

From Slate

From the beginning, he elevated what, in less capable hands, could have played as a one-note cliché.

From Los Angeles Times

“I was concerned that, as first written, Hank wore his chauvinism on his sleeve, was a little one-note and not very nuanced. She took my ideas to make the character sing. I might say something like, ‘I don’t think Hank left his wife or she died; I think that she left him.’

From Los Angeles Times