Deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention.
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Examples for "sterile "
Examples for "sterile "
1 A successful SIT programme requires competitive sterile males of high biological quality.
2 This sterile situation has now been transformed by Mr McDowell's brave initiative.
3 Within a year, every Bajoran on the planet will be made sterile .
4 They want mystery and romance, not sterile common sense or conventional wisdom.
5 In the sterile Denali facilities, hygiene was second nature to all researchers.
1 Strike British accountancy group Hacker Young from the list of unimaginative accountants.
2 The columnist Chrissy Iley recently wrote that only unimaginative people were faithful.
3 This ceremony was an appeal to the unimaginative , the sluggish, the faint-hearted.
4 To the unimaginative visitor, the plan that has been adopted will appeal.
5 The Far Orientals ought to be a particularly unimaginative set of people.
1 The handful of uninspired stems I now possess is far from exciting.
2 As to other aspects of the film, I found the sets uninspired .
3 The poet may be an inspired illiterate, the romance-writer an uninspired hack.
4 The tone was all over the place and the writing was uninspired .
5 Does the thought of having chicken, yet again, got you feeling uninspired ?
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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