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- adverb In an
uncreative way; withoutcreativity .
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Examples
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The two main restaurants serving expatriates — Freedom Restaurant, which serves Iraqi food, and its uncreatively named neighbor, Chinese Freedom Restaurant, which serves dishes like “Cube + Milk + Nugget” — were all but vacant.
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But, it is genuinely unethical for the city pension funds to put $68 million in the Davis Vanecko firm, called, uncreatively, DV Urban Realty.
Ray Hanania: Hypocrisy in Chicago Politics is Deafening 2009
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It is often about idealism†searching and striving for what could or should be rather than uncreatively perpetuating what is or has always been.
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I am, frankly, a little bit surprised at how uncreatively they are going about all this.
Hullabaloo 2008
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Far too many one - and two-person biographical plays, by contrast, stick closely and uncreatively to the record, meaning that they can do little more than offer their viewers a watered-down history lesson.
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But the law-enforcement types, are in one sense just doing their job, albeit uncreatively -- they sense that Carr's not telling all, and are understandably put off by his coyness and hoity-toity ways.
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They are covering their ass by acting professional, that is uncreatively.
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I can forgive that ignorance in Chavez, but not on someone who pretends to a certain intellectual status when in fact he is an empty shell, just good enough to parrot, uncreatively, his master's voice.
The New Orleans post 2005
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I can forgive that ignorance in Chavez, but not on someone who pretends to a certain intellectual status when in fact he is an empty shell, just good enough to parrot, uncreatively, his master's voice.
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Murray's only two exceptions, surprisingly and rather uncreatively, are veterans
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Jake Leonard 2012
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