How to Use unimaginative in a Sentence

unimaginative

adjective
  • Such an unimaginative and bland group of coaches and programs.
    — Antonio Morales, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Some feel short while others are unimaginative.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 1 Dec. 2025
  • But for a film that wants to imagine the world inside smart phones, this story just feels so unimaginative and low-stakes.
    — Katie Walsh, idahostatesman, 27 July 2017
  • Encouraging the friend of your ex is both messy and unimaginative.
    — Corey Mueller, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2017
  • Treating him as the literal butt of a gross-out beer-chugging gag just feels unimaginative.
    — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • For a film that wants to imagine the world inside smartphones, this story just feels so unimaginative and low-stakes.
    — Katie Walsh, The Seattle Times, 27 July 2017
  • But for a film that wants to imagine the world inside smartphones, this story just feels so unimaginative and low-stakes.
    — Katie Walsh, star-telegram, 27 July 2017
  • The barebones and rather unimaginative set by Vale seems built to be recycled.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2021
  • There were aspects of theater that were getting too unimaginative.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 11 May 2020
  • Yet what was once novel and football-redeeming has turned dull and unimaginative.
    — Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Can this post of yours out there not be filled by an unimaginative average person of the type that come 12 to the dozen?
    — Ze'ev Rosenkranz, Time, 19 June 2018
  • Last season, giveaway items, most of which were wearables, were widely panned as unimaginative.
    — Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Dalton wasn’t helped by an unimaginative game plan from the offensive coaches.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Gase's offense stalled and his play-calling were both unimaginative and uninspiring.
    — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2020
  • In contrast to those works, Ferrari feels bizarrely dull and unimaginative in its approach to its visual world.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Dec. 2023
  • There’s a slew of dreadful, unimaginative songs and useless new characters that only weigh things down.
    — Barry Levitt, Vulture, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The fight has been a constant back-and-forth of trash talk between the two, at times juvenile, uncreative and unimaginative.
    — Mike Dyce, SI.com, 6 July 2017
  • Besides, there are questions about the founding that would stump an unimaginative liberal.
    — Paul O. Carrese, National Review, 9 June 2021
  • Stop posting unimaginative photos on social media, please — enough with the hot-tub shots and images of glossy beachside legs.
    — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2021
  • But the unimaginative offense and a line that struggled to run-block conspired to make sure that so many of Stevenson’s yards were hard-earned.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
  • If the latter is true, then getting something practical is always a safe bet, but a pair of socks or a gift card feels just a bit too unimaginative.
    — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 24 May 2018
  • For a man who has sold $700 plates and $8 million sculptures, a video seems a little unimaginative.
    — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2020
  • In contrast, the designers who rehashed trends or showed unimaginative streetwear didn’t leave much of an impression.
    — Emily Farra, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2018
  • This is a competent if unimaginative (it was made for Lifetime, after all) retelling of the real-life tale.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 26 June 2026
  • Neutrals can get boring, but this easy palette reads effortless, not unimaginative.
    — Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 4 May 2026
  • McKay pointed to receivers who were unimaginative with their routes and poor blocking but not Williams.
    — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2023
  • This is little more than a ramshackle succession of scenes that take an unimaginative surface route, never digging too deep.
    — Mark Dawidziak, cleveland.com, 28 June 2019
  • Then there’s head coach Bill O’Brien’s unimaginative play-calling.
    — Max Meyer, SI.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Fennell has tossed all of that out, substituting her own unimaginative vision, plus a bunch of crappy dresses.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 13 Feb. 2026
  • For a certain class of people along the Beltway, this is a perfectly fine, if unimaginative, message.
    — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 2 June 2021

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