unexotic

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Recent Examples of unexotic Even on a dusty tarmac with the car riding on decidedly unexotic Michelin Pilot Sport 4S summer tires (the same rubber that was used to set its official 0–60 and quarter-mile times), the Nevera leapt off the line without a hint of wheelspin. Bradley Iger, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2022 Benefit’s popular cherry-red Benetint started life in 1976 as a nipple stain made for exotic dancers out of rose petals and carmine and later commercialized for the unexotic rest of us. Linda Wells, Town & Country, 16 Apr. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unexotic
Adjective
  • Then, as now, the real work of reform was done in large part from the ground up, via the creation of unglamorous organizations like local Rotary Clubs, which, as the political scientist Robert Putnam has pointed out, amassed enormous social capital for progressive causes by . . .
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Ever-so-matted hair and obnoxiously oversize sunglasses sold the look, giving a delicious, greasy spin on what is normally an unglamorous scenario.
    Violet Goldstone, WWD, 23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Unforgiven recasts the genre as a pitiless, almost pathologically unromantic realm populated by twits hoping to make their name and aged gunslingers who have to make peace with their bad pasts.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The imagination can’t be bothered with unromantic minutiae.
    Kevin Chroust, Outside Online, 5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The point is not to be lifelike or fact-based but familiar and formulaic—in a word, predictable.
    Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The café’s influence is visible at Cora, where the menu includes both familiar and new items, such as a kinako twice-baked croissant and a miso chocolate dulce de leche cookie.
    Rachel King, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025

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“Unexotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unexotic. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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