unoriginal

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But despite some flourishes of creativity, some impressive action scenes (although an annoying lack of them), and great use of a relatively low budget to create some wowing special effects, Push is uninspired, unoriginal, and a waste of opportunity.

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  1. adjective Lacking originality; trite.

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  • When the memory of you / swallows me the way I took / your lovely cock into my mouth He decided he would have given it a D for form and a C minus for content (Your thinking is unoriginal, your meter too unvaried and honey is a hopelessly trite metaphor for semen.') —  The Lesson of Her Death
  • Fast & Furious is everything it sounds like: crass, unoriginal, and mostly tiresome. —  PopMatters
  • It was a contrived, unoriginal, and disingenuous wad of phlegm aimed at giving clueless, closeted bigots small boners. posted by BooBoo (Sun Jan 11 09, 8: 57PM) —  FlickFilosopher.com
  • It was a contrived, unoriginal, and disingenuous wad of phlegm aimed at giving clueless, closeted bigots small boners. —  FlickFilosopher.com
  • The problem with patents is that while this sounds somewhat trivial, unoriginal, and well-known at the time the patent was filed, it's all about the details, and this patent has a lot of interesting particulars. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
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