unrewarding

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Recent Examples of unrewarding Automation enables human workers to opt out of repetitive tasks that are physically taxing but otherwise unrewarding. Massimo Bizzi, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024 The 10 wave playlist mode is boring, short and unrewarding. Paul Tassi, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024 Some or all of the Arab countries involved would likely demand that Israel halt settlement expansion on the West Bank or make other concessions to the Palestinians as the price of their participation in a difficult and unrewarding mission. Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023 Cerebral men of letters often make unrewarding screen protagonists, spending too much time in their own heads to fully engage as characters. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for unrewarding
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrewarding
Adjective
  • Vodka is all-too-often written off as an unexciting category of spirit.
    Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Producers love an unexciting telecast, but audiences are hungry for the kind of raw emotion and drama that populates the films that win the awards.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Like you, or, sorry, like the woman in the book, the ordinary feels so uninspiring, so monotonous.
    Susan Choi, Literary Hub, 5 June 2025
  • Of course, most teams would welcome the position the Padres find themselves in: still possessing baseball’s fifth-best record despite weeks of largely uninspiring offense.
    Dennis Lin, New York Times, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • Although the process can sometimes be tedious, Minor takes pride in every stitch.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 7 June 2025
  • The report found that instead, AI can enrich automatable jobs by freeing up employees from tedious tasks to practice more complex skills and decision making.
    Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 6 June 2025
Adjective
  • The new Snow White represents progressive mediocrity — the antagonism between Snow White and her evil stepmother (Gal Gadot) is bland and uninteresting after the remarkable modern version White as Snow that starred Lou de Laâge and Isabelle Huppert.
    Armond White, National Review, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The first act is genuinely atrocious, a mess of story threads revolving around an uninteresting villain in the AI Entity that feels far too downbeat and sad for this franchise.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • Some people assume that longtime married couples are boring, but my husband has never bored me.
    Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2025
  • Spectators perceive tennis outfits as plain, boring, rigid or limited to a specific silhouette.
    Ruth Etiesit Samuel, Essence, 2 June 2025
Adjective
  • Human judgment will still matter critically, but it will be applied selectively in moments of ambiguity or high risk, rather than wasted on the monotonous tasks that currently consume most of the working day.
    Adam Bowen, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
  • Like you, or, sorry, like the woman in the book, the ordinary feels so uninspiring, so monotonous.
    Susan Choi, Literary Hub, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • And after a tiresome 90 minutes and change, the vibes just seem off.
    Tomris Laffly, Variety, 11 June 2025
  • The first hour of Final Reckoning is the most tiresome stretch of all eight Mission films.
    Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • The movie surrounding it, however, seems determined to make the extraordinary seem as bumper-sticker simple and banal as humanly possible.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2025
  • But lawmakers and the nonpartisan office that advises them have taken issue with the timing of the seemingly banal change.
    William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 4 June 2025

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“Unrewarding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrewarding. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.

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