unimaginative
Britishadjective
Other Word Forms
- unimaginatively adverb
Example Sentences
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It is possible that thinking is unimaginative, too dead to the urgency of the moment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
The best that can be said for the officers in charge is that they were unimaginative, by-the-book commanders overwhelmed by their responsibilities.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Rich criticized the unimaginative set design that made “Emerald City looks like a honeymoon suite at a Las Vegas hotel” and said that the cast contained “not a single performer who can act.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024
He also cited "unimaginative and bad movies" across the genre.
From BBC • Nov. 13, 2023
Unfortunately, the programs we have at present are too often transcriptions onto television monitors of unimaginative lists of routine exercises taken from the textbooks.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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