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But where “Inventing Anna” insists on fidelity to real life, it’s annoying, such as in Garner’s uninventive portrayal of Anna.

From Seattle Times • May 5, 2022

Next to Durham and Cincinnati, L.A. might have seemed uncharacteristically uninventive.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2016

Not only is this a close repetition of other corporate attempts to dodge regulation, it's actually so uninventive that VW was caught and fined in 1973 for dodging similar tests.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2015

For someone considered to be constantly at the vanguard of inventive popular music, Thom Yorke’s music often sounds, to these ears, to be somewhat … uninventive?

From The Guardian • Sep. 26, 2014

How happened it that the American manufacturer did not pursue the same uninventive course?

From Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures by Various