as in unremarkable
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Recent Examples of undistinguished
Murphy had proven that comedy mined from Black culture could power classic SNL sketches, but other young Black comics like Damon Wayans and Chris Rock had undistinguished tenures before blowing up as stars elsewhere.
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Eric Deggans, NPR, 13 Feb. 2025
But Kennedy has a long, undistinguished record of relying on the work of charlatans to make wild charges, of not correcting the record when he is proven wrong, and then going to find more bad evidence to continue to make the same insinuations.
—The Editors, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025
In fact, all the streets in the song are kind of undistinguished.
—Steve Baltin, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
The book follows the life of a Midwestern farm boy who becomes an undistinguished professor of literature.
—Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 2 Nov. 2024
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Eric Deggans, NPR, 13 Feb. 2025
But Kennedy has a long, undistinguished record of relying on the work of charlatans to make wild charges, of not correcting the record when he is proven wrong, and then going to find more bad evidence to continue to make the same insinuations.
—The Editors, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025
In fact, all the streets in the song are kind of undistinguished.
—Steve Baltin, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
The book follows the life of a Midwestern farm boy who becomes an undistinguished professor of literature.
—Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 2 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undistinguished
Adjective
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The second single off 2016’s unremarkable Wonderful Crazy Night did help keep John’s streak going on Billboard’s adult contemporary chart.—
Shana Naomi Krochmal,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2025
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For all the breathless anticipation that Florida, Auburn, Houston and Duke will produce a riveting semifinal doubleheader that offsets what otherwise has been an unremarkable March Madness, there is another possibility: The Blue Devils are in a class of their own.—
Jon Wilner,
Mercury News,
3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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This should be routine, unexceptional, unremarkable.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
22 Apr. 2025
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The Zapad exercises were unexceptional in and of themselves.—
Emily Ferris,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Oct. 2017
Adjective
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Everything else is unimportant compared to being honest about your love to people.—
David Chiu,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
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In future decades and centuries, economic archaeologists will marvel that what was so unimportant was taken so seriously.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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The problems the teens in the film had were parental, which is certainly not insignificant, but there wasn't the kind of imminent danger that many kids face today.—
Virginia Chamlee,
People.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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The classic case of Blockbuster turning down the acquisition of Netflix, which in hindsight was devastating, but at the time seemed insignificant.—
Mary Crossan,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Undistinguished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undistinguished. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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