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uninspired

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Word definitions for uninspired in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of inspire (v.).

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
not inspiration; dull or dry v (en-past of: uninspire )

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Blanchard is the one that counts here, and her Cher is an uninspired knockoff. ▪ His departure was considered a foregone conclusion since the lifeless Trojans were playing uninspired ball. ▪ I was left a little uninspired ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having no intellectual or emotional or spiritual excitement; "the production was professional but uninspired" deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention; "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"; "unimaginative development ...

Usage examples of uninspired.

The review of one drab and uninspired extrapolation after another had drained his patience.

If the leading theologians of Christendom, such as Anselm, Calvin, and Grotius, have so thoroughly repudiated the original Christian and patristic doctrine of the atonement, and built another doctrine upon their own uninspired speculations, why should our modern sects defer so slavishly to them, and, instead of freely investigating the subject for themselves from the first sources of Scripture and spiritual philosophy, timidly cling to the results reached by these biassed, morbid, and over sharp thinkers?

Not contented with the blood which was so profusely shed in the heat of action, they traversed the field after the battle, and massacred those miserable wretches who lay maimed and expiring: nay, some officers acted a part in this cruel scene of assassination, the triumph of low illiberal minds, uninspired by sentiment, untinctured by humanity.

All the bizarre electronic paintings, sculptures, and geometrical jewel-forms were horrendously derivative and uninspired.

It will serve as an illustration of the kind of tragedy that was being evolved from Senecan models by plodding uninspired Englishmen before Marlowe flung his flaming torch amongst them.

Otherwise, they produce an essentially dull, uninspired piece of work that depends entirely on the whopper at the very end.

In any case, my drum tells me this: That afternoon in the year 1899, while in South Africa Oom Kruger was brushing his bushy anti-British eyebrows, my mother Agnes, between Dirschau and Karthaus, not far from the Bissau brickworks, amid smoke, terrors, sighs, and saints' names, under four skirts of identical color, under the slanting rain and the smoke-filled eyes of two rural constables asking uninspired questions, was begotten by the short but stocky Joseph Koljaiczek.

She knew that the chef, for oddly enough there was actually a live human in the kitchen, varied his menu not a whit, and that it offered such uninspired choices as Cobb Salad, grilled cheese sandwiches, and hamburgers.

Dinners in smart and hollow places, where the chefs put coy signatures of garnishment on uninspired dishes---places chosen by her escorts.

I filed a minimum of uninspired war-is-hell-and-frankly-so-is-peace-if-you're-female-out-here stories from the hotel and smoked some mind-bendingly powerful dope I got from an affable Palestinian helper who - as soon the journos left - was picked up by the Kuwaiti authorities, tortured and deported to Lebanon.

His sense of humor ran toward whoopee cushions, plastic vomit, and hand-buzzers, bless his tacky and totally uninspired heart, but he wasn't cruel.