undistinguished

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Recent Examples of undistinguished But Kennedy has a long, undistinguished record of relying on the work of charlatans to make wild charges, of not correcting the record when he is proven wrong, and then going to find more bad evidence to continue to make the same insinuations. The Editors, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025 In fact, all the streets in the song are kind of undistinguished. Steve Baltin, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025 The book follows the life of a Midwestern farm boy who becomes an undistinguished professor of literature. Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 2 Nov. 2024 The two allies must realize that Pyongyang’s next missile or nuclear test is not another blip in the long and undistinguished history of managing the status quo in the Korean peninsula. Sung-Yoon Lee, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2015 See All Example Sentences for undistinguished
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undistinguished
Adjective
  • The message itself was unremarkable – just another tech announcement on X – but its implications were anything but ordinary.
    Craig S. Smith, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Gentry Lee is a remarkable man who is also thoroughly unremarkable.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The Zapad exercises were unexceptional in and of themselves.
    Emily Ferris, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The movie offers phantasmagorical twists on unexceptional banalities.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Everything else is unimportant compared to being honest about your love to people.
    David Chiu, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
  • In future decades and centuries, economic archaeologists will marvel that what was so unimportant was taken so seriously.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Even if the missing evidence is insignificant or duplicative, the prosecutor’s prior statement of readiness is invalidated, the clock is considered to have never stopped, and in many cases has by then run out, and the case is dismissed.
    Mimi Rocah, New York Daily News, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Turkish drone losses in the Middle East in recent months were not insignificant, especially considering the losses spanned at least four indigenous drone types.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025

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“Undistinguished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undistinguished. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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