How to Use unoriginal in a Sentence

unoriginal

adjective
  • Putting him in this unoriginal movie should get you a few whacks with a wooden spoon.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023
  • The latest film in the long-running saga is an unoriginal, tone-deaf mess.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 12 Dec. 2017
  • What’s maybe most surprising is how unoriginal most of the work is.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2018
  • This seems a rather unoriginal name to be chosen by a woman whose talent lay with words.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
  • In sales, trust is currency, and nothing burns trust faster than sounding unoriginal, lazy or shady.
    — Don Markland, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Beckham pokes fun at Mendes and calls him unoriginal in a promo for the upcoming episode.
    — Jenna West, SI.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • SpaceX challenged the patent as unoriginal and won a split decision.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021
  • These stories are shockingly unoriginal, both in the real world and in films and television.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 11 Apr. 2025
  • In its unoriginal premise — yet another knight trying to impress his lady!
    — Ilan Stavans, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Listen, saying Tom Hardy is a great actor is the most unoriginal take ever.
    — Ineye Komonibo, Marie Claire, 18 Sep. 2019
  • The bourbon shelf is overflowing with unoriginal ‘me-too’ bottles.
    — Rachel King, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024
  • These sentences aren’t flourishes of showoff; nothing unoriginal slips by in this flawless novel.
    — Randy Rosenthal, The Seattle Times, 2 Aug. 2018
  • So my advice is to apply the lessons of my unoriginal global observation to the grainy business of getting along with the people in your life.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
  • But the novel isn’t transphobic as much as sadly ill-considered and unoriginal.
    — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 16 June 2022
  • Kyle Fraser People are going to think this is an unoriginal answer.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • In good news, this unoriginal horror movie plays smart, funny, and breezy with its material, which is mostly the point of a good slasher flick anyway.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Perhaps that’s why so much of this early new era of MLS has felt so clumsy, so ill-fitting and so unoriginal.
    — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Both are also painfully unoriginal and predictable, using the same complaints about wokeness and crime again and again in predictable ways.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 26 June 2023
  • The originals were directed by skilled but unoriginal directors who put their stars in the spotlight and kept the comedy bright and broad.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Give me a break, Duffer Brothers, with this unoriginal nonsense.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • But the cold-lunch alternative doesn't have to mean unoriginal sandwiches, sad desk salads, or caving and eating out.
    — Alexa Tucker, SELF, 8 Aug. 2017
  • After a few seconds, the program spat out an eight-paragraph essay, unoriginal but coherent, with works cited.
    — Christopher Beam, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
  • This makes your home feel intentional and personal instead of sterile and unoriginal.
    — Ashlyn Needham, The Spruce, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Other artists copied his style, which at first the artist considered flattering but later saw it as unoriginal as his popularity grew.
    — Charlotte Observer, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Scott Sanchez, Kai’s coach, confirmed this unoriginal theory and added a key element.
    — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • Due to the proliferation of social media, wedding styles can quickly feel overused, unoriginal, and even worse, dated.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2021
  • His teacher said the design was unoriginal and gave him the mediocre grade, but offered to raise it to an A if the design was accepted nationally.
    — Josh Axelrod and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 14 June 2018
  • The fat person/farm animal comparison is apparently one of the most hilarious jokes of all time and not at all unoriginal.
    — Marie Southard Ospina, refinery29.com, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Veronica, meanwhile, sneaks into her dad’s office and opens the safe (the code is always her birthday, how unoriginal, Hiram) to grab the cash inside.
    — Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The cardinal event of Saturday night is the dunk contest, which is now a lame parade of props, unoriginal ideas, and G-Leaguers.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2024

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