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  • adjective Not creative, nor inventive.

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  • adjective not creative

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Examples

  • Much more, and certainly not the short-term uncreative thinking Taxpayers are being presented with.

    America's Overnight Transformation 2009

  • You might also give a thought to the forthcoming anthology Against Expression Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith, eds. that will feature a historical range of so-called "uncreative" writings, or look at some of the transdisciplinary writings published in the Western Front's FRONT magazine, and in the better indie zines and micro-magazines.

    Interesting, but it's not literature Lemon Hound 2006

  • You might also give a thought to the forthcoming anthology Against Expression Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith, eds. that will feature a historical range of so-called "uncreative" writings, or look at some of the transdisciplinary writings published in the Western Front's FRONT magazine, and in the better indie zines and micro-magazines.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Lemon Hound 2006

  • But they have about them an aura of unreality that leads one to ask, with added urgency in today's global climate of financial and political insecurity: Will the children in their charge, formed as they are by directing their own learning, be able to attend to anything that is "uncreative" and

    American Thinker 2009

  • Regarding subjectivity-whether in a creative or "uncreative" (?) field-whenever people are doing the judging, there's no escaping it.

    Lateral Action 2009

  • One wonders what kind of uncreative and controlled mind you must have to be eternally fixated on such a managerial question.

    iToot Stream 2009

  • Goldsmith is a wordsmith known for his "uncreative" writing.

    University of Toronto -- News@UofT 2009

  • And four days later - after trying to pick my brain apart ... (cuz 'I'm kind of uncreative that way ..

    moschikat Diary Entry moschikat 2002

  • Costly because of its wasteful infrastructure of bean-counting, bill-writing, debt-collecting, and uncreative accountancy.

    Letters: Unpalatable medicine for the NHS 2011

  • It is perhaps the most creative aspect of finance and all these uncreative people worrying about their money makes me guffaw.

    Poll of Polls: Obama more popular than his policies 2009

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