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Example sentences from the Web for unadventurousAll of them are plain, boring, unadventurous, and blush when the topic of sex is brought up. Lifetime’s ‘Girlfriend Intervention’: The Fairy Black Mothers TV Doesn’t Need|Phoebe Robinson|September 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST Howard Kurtz on the unadventurous address that made little attempt to get personal. Romney Plays It Safe|Howard Kurtz|August 31, 2012|DAILY BEAST It was a strong speech, a solid speech, a well-delivered and well-received speech—but also a safe and unadventurous speech. Romney Plays It Safe|Howard Kurtz|August 31, 2012|DAILY BEAST David Grann is a New Yorker staff writer who, by his own admission, is unadventurous and prone to get lost on the C train. Raiders of the Lost City|The Daily Beast|February 24, 2009|DAILY BEAST
His intellect was inexhaustibly fertile of distinctions and objections; his temper calm and unadventurous. The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay Unadventurous, un-ad-ven′tūr-us, adj. not adventurous or bold. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements)|Various He was not unadventurous in his scramblings, but with no ambition to get to the top of everything. The Life of John Ruskin|W. G. Collingwood At all events, in quiet Campden, adventures obviously occurred to the unadventurous. Historical Mysteries|Andrew Lang "The Wimbushes and the Lapiths were always an unadventurous, respectable crew," said Priscilla, with a note of scorn in her voice. Crome Yellow|Aldous Huxley
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adjectivenot daring or enterprising Words nearby unadventurousunacquainted, unaddressed, unadopted, unadorned, unadulterated, unadventurous, unadvised, unaesthetic, unaffected, unaffiliated, unafraid Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to unadventurousrealistic, reliable, prudent, dependable, sure, calculating, careful, chary, circumspect, competent, considerate, discreet, gingerly, guarded, tried and true, trustworthy, wary |