heroic
adjective
Also heroical of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
unheroic
-
a word derived from
heroic.
Example Sentences
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In Aviv’s view, Munro’s work accumulated power even as her family unraveled and her own unheroic passivity was exposed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
While his part there is “the most unheroic hero you’ll ever see,” he said in the interview, he has come to see it as personally meaningful in ways he didn’t expect.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2022
Eventually bin Laden died a unheroic death, surrounded by his wives and kids in a squalid suburban compound in Pakistan.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2021
I’m interested in the ways that heroic language is deployed by people who are very unheroic in order to create a heroic response or to create a protective response in society.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2020
He got up looking very unheroic; indeed, decidedly sheepish.
From A Practical Novelist by John Davidson
