engaging
adjective
winning; attractive; pleasing.
unengaging
-
a word derived from
engaging.
Example Sentences
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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
The uneven text ultimately creates an unclear and unengaging profile.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
But like virtually every character in the film, Dickie is an unengaging archetype: a pale Xerox of someone far more compelling.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2021
And, indeed, his Cockney pronunciation and ungainly vulgar tricks had been so summarily p. 520repressed by his aunt, that his fear of both the ladies rendered him particularly unengaging and unchildlike.
From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Charlotte Mary Yonge
