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Recent Examples of unerotic
The director Ninja Thyberg’s new film is graphic yet deeply unerotic.
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 May 2022
Holbein was sensitive but cautiously unerotic in picturing women, who are usually sombre.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
Surprisingly, McKay offers nothing more graphic than that rather unerotic image.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 May 2022
Holbein was sensitive but cautiously unerotic in picturing women, who are usually sombre.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
Surprisingly, McKay offers nothing more graphic than that rather unerotic image.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unerotic
Adjective
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The conversation moved into unsexy hyperbole very quickly.—
Amogh Dimri,
The Atlantic,
2 Jan. 2026
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Tazewell has heard it all — and he's addressed it, defending the cozy, furry piece that's decidedly unsexy during the loving moment.—
Hedy Phillips,
PEOPLE,
27 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Lee Martino’s choreography, like the production as a whole, is at its best when observing decorous constraints.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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Paul has to buck the prevailing suffragist movement led by Carrie Chapman Catt, whose methods are more decorous and patient.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
29 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Jim Dickinson stepped in to produce and play a little piano, but Travis deemed the results too polished, too polite, too bourgeois.—
Stephen M. Deusner,
Pitchfork,
8 Feb. 2026
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Messy is a polite way to describe the silos of vitriol that have turned hate into a national pastime.—
Denise Crosby,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Feb. 2026
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“Unerotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unerotic. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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