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unengaging

  • a word derived from engaging.
    engaging
    adjective
    winning; attractive; pleasing.

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But the lack of compelling performances renders this complex tragedy, and its conflicted central character, frustratingly flat and stubbornly unengaging.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 14, 2026

There’s very little chemistry or connection among them, resulting in an unengaging, totally trite and lackluster story.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 21, 2024

But these choreographic concepts are bare frames, and what’s inside them is largely inchoate and unengaging.

From New York Times Mar. 4, 2022

The uneven text ultimately creates an unclear and unengaging profile.

From Textbooks Dec. 21, 2021

Why, on top of her experience of bearleading a brace of utterly uninteresting and unengaging children—and being at the beck and call of their detestable underbred mother, this was ideal.

From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram