How to Use untalented in a Sentence

untalented

adjective
  • The second act chronicles the hard slog of pushing a lousy act with an untalented lead on a dying vaudeville circuit.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The main charge is not that Anne Hathaway is untalented or undeserving of celebrity.
    — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 24 May 2022
  • But the pushback is coming from this misguided place that super talented white actors and actresses are being passed over for jobs by untalented people of color.
    — Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • In the film, Kane’s second wife, Susan Alexander, is portrayed as an untalented opera singer, whose career becomes an obsession for him.
    — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Six of his fellow starters on the 53-man squad had been considered so untalented in high school that the national ranking service Rivals had not even bothered rating them.
    — Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The combination of massive volume but on a potentially bad offense behind an untalented line gives Bell one of the widest ranges of outcomes of running backs taken in the first two rounds.
    — SI.com, 8 July 2019
  • People called her rude, untalented, unfunny, and accused her of being a nepo baby or worse, simply another influencer wasting everyone’s time.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2024
  • After all, Jared Kushner is worth hundreds of millions of dollars despite being untalented at pretty much everything.
    — Jack Moore, GQ, 27 Sep. 2017
  • The style mimics that of an enthusiastic but perhaps untalented eighth-grader who has decided to draw comic books in between perfecting his heavy-metal logo penmanship.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2017
  • On the original, Trini was characterized as untalented and attention-grabbing.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Amy is married with a child; her stay-at-home husband (Joseph Lee) is the untalented son of a famous artist-designer, along the lines of Isamu Noguchi, who makes awful blobby ceramic vases.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • In typical sports comedy fashion, Jasmine's team consists of a ragtag group of untalented boys who don't want to embarrass themselves by playing under a female quarterback, but who quickly change their tune once their team starts winning.
    — Ilana Gordon, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2023
  • In her post, Curtis, 64, acknowledged the privileges of her upbringing, but defends herself from false assumptions that all nepotism babies are automatically untalented or undeserving of their fame.
    — Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Obstacles include Lockwood’s shrill, untalented co-star Luna Lamont and clueless movie execs who are unprepared for a creative and technological revolution of movies with soundtracks.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 13 July 2025

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