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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unenterprising
Adjective
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The door series emphasizes one weakness of the show: its unadventurous hang.—
Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
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The team became a kind of lazy shorthand for tastefully unadventurous filmmaking, and unfairly so.—
Adjective
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Avoiding is unassertive and uncooperative, where an individual tends to give up on their own needs and acquiesce to the desires of others by disengaging from the situation altogether.—
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Accommodating, which is unassertive and cooperative, prioritizes the needs and preferences of others over one’s own in order to maintain harmony.—
Adjective
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But when the homework clause was revealed, the enormous unsocial media fan was out there and the manure hit it with great force.—
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The choice of verbs on social media seems, to Miss Manners, to demonstrate a decidedly unsocial intent.—
Adjective
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Currently, some prescribing physicians are likely unaware if patients have disordered eating tendencies, either because the symptoms slip through the cracks, the patient actively conceals them, or the patient is too embarrassed to bring them up, Wassenaar explained.—
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Perhaps Jennifer was still embarrassed by the unintentional self-exposure of What Party?—
Adjective
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Ask Amy: My unsociable neighbor doesn't know about me and his wife.—
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To drink too much would be inexcusable; to drink too little would be unsociable.—
Adjective
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To solve the murder of Treasury Department honcho Raymond King (J.K. Simmons, getting out while the getting is good) our fabled, antisocial hero forges an uneasy allegiance of convenience with the dead man’s protégé, Marybeth (Cynthia Addai-Robinson).—
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Many of them show signs of problem behavior in their early years and then engage in antisocial or violent behavior for most of their lives.—
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These meta-references might have registered as little more than self-conscious tics, but Robinson’s aggressively eccentric performance gives them a prickly, ultimately disturbing sense of purpose.—
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If you’re rusty on bar etiquette or self-conscious about how to act on a night out, John deBary is here to help.—
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“Unenterprising.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unenterprising. Accessed 30 May. 2025.
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