heroic
adjective
Also heroical of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
unheroically
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a word derived from
heroic.
Example Sentences
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The morning after we saw “Age of Ultron”—a sleepover was involved—Captain Comics and Mr. What? and I read the first issue of “A-Force” at the kitchen table, unheroically, over waffles.
From The New Yorker ● May 7, 2015
One thing they could not change was the fact that Khrushchev was coming to Paris just as the Fifth Republic unheroically survived its most serious parliamentary crisis to date.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet he spent a heroic overworked year heading off a cholera epidemic in a west Russia country district, all the while grumping unheroically.
From Time Magazine Archive
In New York it is a hero sandwich; in the South, it is known, unheroically, as a poor boy.
From Time Magazine Archive
These sorry figures are made to pass very unheroically through a series of burlesque adventures.
From A History of English Literature by Robert Huntington Fletcher
