Example Sentences

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"It is a movie marooned in a desert of unoriginality - and the desert doesn't bloom."

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2022

But bad writing and unoriginality are not, as Clavin might say, a match made on the high-water mark.

From New York Times • May 26, 2020

At the same time, I can imagine Rooney—who recalls having “nursed intense romantic obsessions for droll counterfactuals”—noting the unoriginality of invoking her collegiate debating record as evidence of her verbal precocity.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018

“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” gets away with its unoriginality for the most part, but this franchise’s desperation is starting to show.

From Washington Times • Jun. 5, 2018

But there is a point at which unoriginality may become a sin.

From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Reed, Talbot Baines