Deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention.
1 How happened it that the American manufacturer did not pursue the same uninventive course?
2 But to-night mischief itself was quiet and uninventive .
3 Lem Perry, the leader of the claque, had a somewhat set speech, being uninventive in the construction of new phrases.
4 It is dilatory because it has no sense of coming things, it is uninventive and wasteful, it does not create, it takes advantage.
5 In peace and war alike the unimaginative, uninventive man is a burthen and a retardation, as he never was before in the world's history.
6 "Behold the end, O most uninventive and slow-witted Chang-ch'un!" he cried in a dreadful and awe-compelling voice.
7 "Have already thrice been narrated within Wu-whei by the versatile but exceedingly uninventive Kai Lung," remarked Wang Yu placidly.
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