Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not entertaining or amusing; giving no delight.
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- adjective Not
entertaining ;dull .
Etymologies
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Examples
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From its use of living performers delivered as heads-only, to its pretentious insistence that the audience wear lab coats, this performance embodied unentertaining kitsch.
Mat Gleason: Would Hollywood Tolerate Marina Abramovic Rehash? Mat Gleason 2011
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Waste Land was at the very back of the Sundance catalogue and sounded very unentertaining a doc about an artist working in a garbage dump?
If it's September it must be Venice: but Europe's film festivals face a new threat 2011
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From its use of living performers delivered as heads-only, to its pretentious insistence that the audience wear lab coats, this performance embodied unentertaining kitsch.
Mat Gleason: Would Hollywood Tolerate Marina Abramovic Rehash? Mat Gleason 2011
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Half Nelson is just plain stupid, insipid and unentertaining.
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Touted as a nasty, gory torture flick, I rushed out to watch Red Room only to be vastly disappointed with this strictly unentertaining, misogynistic film.
Red Room (1999) 2010
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And this video proves how terribly unfunny and unentertaining this version will be.
Unfunny Mall Cop Viral Video with Kevin James « FirstShowing.net 2008
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One other advantage to this design is that you instanteously have access to two guns as each barrel and trigger is a somewhat a separate in event of a misfire at a most inconvienant and unentertaining moment.
Make Mine a Double 2008
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They are intentionally adding unentertaining filler, so that when X Factor comes along, not all the best unsigned acts will have been scooped up.
'America's Got Talent': Time to get on board with the air band | EW.com 2010
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What it made me realize is that people like Joel and like me, I suppose were drawn to this unentertaining show because we felt like we knew what was going to happen next.
Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television Chuck Klosterman 2009
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The closest we had recently was Monk, but he was arguably merely a gateway detective to the other more gimmicky but not unentertaining figures like Dexter, and could never match up for the sheer experience of waiting for Columbo to mumble those infamous revellatory words.
Playing Hunter, Inadequate Special Editions And Just One Last Question… | Obsessed With Film 2009
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