ADJECTIVE
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deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention
unimaginative development of a musical theme
a sterile ideology lacking in originality
uninspired writing
How To Use uninventive In A Sentence
- These self-glorifying tropes are exploited in routine, uninventive travelogs promoting the national (cultural and art) heritage and war reportages.
- Like many home-grown films, though, it is let down by uninventive dialogue. The Sun
- Both parties agreed that the addressee is deemed to be unimaginative and uninventive.
- Ungainly and uninventive as they are, this English side could still thrive in this competition.
- In the past archaeologists and anthropologists believed the Neandertals were uninventive and slow creatures.
- Inauthentic, on the one hand; uninventive, on the other. The Times Literary Supplement
- Even so, it was stodgy, uninventive fare from the home backs. Times, Sunday Times
- I'm not saying Neville was an uninteresting or uninventive designer, but he was definitely one who was clear about what he liked and what he didn't like.
- They live in fantasy worlds which make Euro Disney seem uninventive.
- But, surprisingly for a writer of his resourcefulness, most of the invective is monotonously uninventive. Times, Sunday Times