Crossword-Solution: UNORIGINAL
We have 10 clues for the answer “UNORIGINAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| not being or productive of something fresh and unusual | 1 answer |
| Far from innovative | 4 answers |
| Hardly fresh | 7 answers |
| "__ nothing new" | 8 answers |
| Far from fresh | 9 answers |
| not original | 10 answers |
| derivative | 11 answers |
| Imitative | 54 answers |
| prosaic | 58 answers |
| Hackneyed | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with UNORIGINAL (5)
The Marquis is a dullard whose wooing takes the form at best of stilted compliments, stupid and unoriginal.
Brown's chief ambition in life is to be original, and his method of obtaining the original is to take the unoriginal and turn it upside down.
Poets and philosophers and statesmen thus spring up in the country pastures, and outlast the hosts of unoriginal men.
Better criticism and greater freedom for fiction might vitalize our overabundant, unoriginal, unreal, unversatile,--everything but unformed short story.
The official eye is more eloquent than the official lips and asks almost urgently, "What in this immeasurable universe have you managed to do to your thumbs? And why?" But he is only a very inferior sort of official indeed, a mere clerk of the post, and he has all the guarded reserve of your thoroughly unoriginal man.
Quotes with UNORIGINAL (3)
You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? 'I love you' is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I, yet when you say it and when I say it we speak like savages who have found three words and worship them.
No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own …
Not long ago, I advertised for perverse rules of grammar, along the lines of "Remember to never split an infinitive" and "The passive voice should never be used." The notion of making a mistake while laying down rules ("Thimk," "We Never Make Misteaks") is highly unoriginal, and it turns out that English teachers have been circulating lists of fumblerules for years. As owner of the world's largest collection, and with thanks to scores of readers, let me pass along a bunch of …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, Universal, WP.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (2005–2024).