unheroically
- 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
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
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
A little while after he was sitting unheroically amid the dust of the roadside, smiling somewhat quizzically up at his rescuer.
From The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines by Vandercook, Margaret O'Bannon Womack
