How to Use unenthusiastic in a Sentence

unenthusiastic

adjective
  • Many critics were unenthusiastic when this cult classic first opened.
    — Sara Aridi, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2017
  • And yet many people were unenthusiastic about the economy as a whole.
    — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Of course, a vote cast by an enthusiastic voter is worth the same as a vote cast by an unenthusiastic voter.
    — Harry Enten, CNN, 19 Feb. 2022
  • Look for support from people who are already on your wavelength rather than trying to co-opt unenthusiastic outsiders.
    — Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2024
  • Dao, says the aide, was pointedly unenthusiastic about the pursuit.
    — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
  • What if your interviewer hems and haws about answering, or comes across as distinctly unenthusiastic about the place?
    — Anne Fisher, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Mezher and his lieutenants were unenthusiastic about the assignment.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
  • There's only so much one can glean from the preseason, but performance reviews for Maye have been unenthusiastic at best.
    — Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The Cavs overcame an unenthusiastic start and were ahead 54-47 at the halftime break.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 27 Jan. 2023
  • But even if the campaign song is gone forever, politicians will still need a way to engage with and excite otherwise unenthusiastic voters.
    — National Geographic, 29 Feb. 2016
  • At a meeting last week, board members seemed unenthusiastic about accepting the funds, opting to delay a decision.
    — Rachel Fradette, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Feb. 2023
  • At best, celebrity endorsements might convince some otherwise unenthusiastic people at the margins to turn out and vote.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 12 Sep. 2024
  • In recent years, including the start of this one, Jansen’s jog from the bullpen gates has sometimes elicited unenthusiastic responses from the stands.
    — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2021
  • The reaction by investors in China’s stock markets to the central bank’s move was unenthusiastic.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • But such pledges run the dual risk of unenthusiastic lawyers who collude with their opponents or the stifling of the fundamental freedom of lawyers to choose their causes.
    — The Editors, National Review, 7 Apr. 2025
  • But some Democrats were still unenthusiastic about the House legislation.
    — Andrew Duehren, WSJ, 25 June 2019
  • Many rank-and-file lawmakers left the meeting seemingly willing to go along with the plan but unenthusiastic about voting for yet another short-term measure.
    — Leigh Ann Caldwell, NBC News, 17 Jan. 2018
  • But the senator looked rather unenthusiastic about his spot in the Capitol gallery, slouching in his spot with his legs crossed and his mask on while sporting colorful mittens.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2022
  • House Democrats say their bill is the only way forward, while Republicans are unenthusiastic.
    — Tal Kopan, SFChronicle.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • The series follows a group of Hollywood hopefuls waiting for their big break while working as very unenthusiastic caterers.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 6 Feb. 2022
  • This year’s lousy oil-and-gas earnings have turned off many investors, who remain unenthusiastic about the companies despite a modest rebound in crude prices from the historic lows of this spring.
    — Rebecca Elliott, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Yet the traveler in me can’t help feeling let down by her unenthusiastic response to this miraculous city built hundreds of years ago on tree trunks driven into the clay bottom of a lagoon.
    — Chris Morris, Orange County Register, 3 Mar. 2017
  • Most of the yolks feature the unenthusiastic visage of Gudetama, while brioche buns come stamped with the character donning a chef’s toque and reclining in its eggshell.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2024
  • The pair of films in that incarnation of the Fantastic Four performed so-so at the box office, but critics and most fans were unenthusiastic.
    — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The audience's energy did not match that of the Spitz's younger fanbase, and the two young girls who attempted crowd surfing were met with folks unenthusiastic about keeping them in the air.
    — Mars Salazar, Austin American-Statesman, 15 Nov. 2024
  • That first orgasm, a brittle, unenthusiastic moan rippling as the A24 logo fills the screen, isn’t so much experienced as performed.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The poll found many Americans unenthusiastic about the idea that state universities should strive to enroll a student body with a racial and ethnic makeup similar to the demographics of their home states.
    — Emily Guskin, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2022
  • For Lena Dunham, photos of her seemingly trying to kiss an unenthusiastic Brad Pitt remain some of the most cringe-worthy on the internet.
    — Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 13 May 2020
  • In this purple-on-purple preppy look, Lady Di (then a 19-year-old nursery school teacher) seemed sweet—if not a little unenthusiastic about being photographed.
    — Natalie Arroyo Camacho, InStyle, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Here are our fave things about the playroom, besides Baby Canon's unenthusiastic facial expressions as his sisters Riley and Ryan go estatic.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 15 Jan. 2020

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