unheroic
- a word derived from heroic.
Example Sentences
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The central deviation is that this “Speak No Evil,” with its more pronounced humor and catharsis, treats the other film’s scenario as a ghastly comedy of manners rather than as a brutalizing, unheroic descent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
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
She is an American heroine describing a decidedly unheroic moment.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 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
There are two ways of encountering an anti-climax, an heroic, an unheroic.
From Love and Lucy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
