as in unassertive
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Recent Examples of unadventurous
Our children are unadventurous eaters.
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Damon Young, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2022
The way de Montebello sees it, the next challenge is persuading the geographically unadventurous to make the trip uptown.
—Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 31 Dec. 2022
When asked to draw a picture of a flower that does not exist, monolingual children were fairly unadventurous, drawing perhaps a flower that was missing its leaves, or a flower with only one petal.
—Julie Sedivy, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2012
Sony hit its marks, delivering graphically impressive but otherwise unadventurous installments in their major series, and Nintendo shipped a suite of characteristically springy platformers and sports games.
—Clayton Purdom, Chron, 8 Dec. 2022
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Damon Young, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2022
The way de Montebello sees it, the next challenge is persuading the geographically unadventurous to make the trip uptown.
—Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 31 Dec. 2022
When asked to draw a picture of a flower that does not exist, monolingual children were fairly unadventurous, drawing perhaps a flower that was missing its leaves, or a flower with only one petal.
—Julie Sedivy, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2012
Sony hit its marks, delivering graphically impressive but otherwise unadventurous installments in their major series, and Nintendo shipped a suite of characteristically springy platformers and sports games.
—Clayton Purdom, Chron, 8 Dec. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unadventurous
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.—
Ellen Choi,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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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.—
Ellen Choi,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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.—
Elizabeth Yuko,
Health,
20 May 2025
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Perhaps Jennifer was still embarrassed by the unintentional self-exposure of What Party?—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
17 May 2025
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).—
A.A. Dowd,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2025
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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.—
Jens Ludwig,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Apr. 2025
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.—
Nick CanepaColumnist,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 July 2022
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The choice of verbs on social media seems, to Miss Manners, to demonstrate a decidedly unsocial intent.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
6 Jan. 2022
Adjective
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Ask Amy: My unsociable neighbor doesn't know about me and his wife.—
Bay Area News Group,
The Mercury News,
2 June 2024
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To drink too much would be inexcusable; to drink too little would be unsociable.—
Erika Page,
The Christian Science Monitor,
2 Feb. 2024
Adjective
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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.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
16 May 2025
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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.—
Hana Asbrink,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
13 May 2025
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“Unadventurous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unadventurous. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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