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  Also, in recent use, uninspiringly.

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1815.  J. Scott, Vis. Paris, 24. Monotonous in its character, and uninspiring in its tendency.

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1859.  Jephson & Reeve, Brittany, 268. The uninspiring region of railroads and metropolitan industry.

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1896.  Harper’s Mag., XCIII. 17/2. Gazing … over the uninspiring chimney-pots of New York, at the equally uninspiring Long Island station.

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1901.  Mrs. F. H. Burnett, Making Marchioness, iv. 129. Walderhurst gazed uninspiringly.

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1916.  Max Weber, Essays on Art, 64. Matter suffers when treated uninspiringly.

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