How To Use Undistinguished In A Sentence
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In the recent retrospective of Nan Kempner’s wardrobe at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, the late socialite’s closet was re-created in breathtaking detail — all 354 jackets and 362 sweaters — but her surprisingly undistinguished collection of handbags was relegated to a high shelf and mostly hidden.
Carried Away
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Strictly speaking, it means commonplace, undistinguished, but has come to mean pertaining to the people.
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Annie Allen's another one of Brooks's very ordinary, totally undistinguished characters.
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He then went to Milton Keynes to watch his team being led to an undistinguished draw by a 63-year-old straight-talking former part-time chiropodist from Sheffield.
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His Vietnam war career was undistinguished.
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Instead, he wrote a barely adequate, undistinguished letter.
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It is a distinguished feature in an undistinguished landscape; a building or place of outstanding historic, aesthetic or cultural importance.
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The rubble had hardly stopped vibrating in Iraq when our cocky Commander-in-Chief -- himself an "undistinguished" former Air National Guard pilot -- shamelessly played dress-up in a navy flight suit to declare "mission accomplished" in Iraq.
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He had an undistinguished big-league career as a first and third-baseman.
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It is a distinguished feature in an undistinguished landscape; a building or place of outstanding historic, aesthetic or cultural importance.
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No undistinguished schoolboy could hope for more.
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Named one of Parliament's deputy lieutenants in March 1642, his subsequent military record was undistinguished.
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All these years, it was believed that Sienna, our houseguest was but a baseborn mutt, a dog of undistinguished and humble origins.
Background revealed
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With a shudder he turned back and entered the ball once more, just as unnoticeable and undistinguished that he had been when he first arrived.
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Of all my rather undistinguished classmates, one was stunning.
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Extraordinary multiple all-year waterfalls cascading down an otherwise undistinguished mountainside but beautiful with several deep crystal aquamarine pools for swimming or simple sightseeing.
El Chiflon
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Yoon is a scientist with the Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia, and he embarked on this venture in 1989 with less than great enthusiasm: "When I first saw a clump of rather undistinguished-looking grass, it looked so ordinary and so frighteningly similar to the horrible 'lalang'
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He left behind a very undistinguished education, getting thrown out of posh boarding schools, to walk at the tender age of 18 from Rotterdam to Istanbul, sleeping in castles and hayricks en route, and ending up living with a Byzantine princess, twelve years his senior, in Moldavia until the war separated them.
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The faculty was undistinguished, teaching methods uninspired, and the attrition rate, of course, appalling.
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Working as quickly as Murray and his sub-editors and assistants could do — often 13 hours a day, it was nevertheless five years before the first published fascicle (A-Ant) came from the press in 1884, a “slender, somewhat undistinguished-looking paperback book,” the first of 128 such fascicles that would make up the entire dictionary.
Analyzing Becky Sharp’s Trash
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This can be seen most clearly in the undistinguished suburban housing development projects.
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Eshoo, noting the "undistinguished" ranking the U.S. has in world broadband standings, said that network built with public funds should be open.
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My cat was a half-grown black-and-white female of undistinguished origin, guaranteed to be clean and amenable.
ON CATS
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The piece is magnificent in many ways but is fatally let-down by an undistinguished organ sound that even I can better with an electronic keyboard.
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A couple of undistinguished losses hastened the end of his career.
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While turning an undistinguished group of mesenchymal cells into muscle is a complex transformation, that transformation can be turned on or off with a set of very simple commands.
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The walls are blank and white, everything is plain and undistinguished in the low light.
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The aircraft enjoyed an undistinguished and short career as a racer before being put up for sale.
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An undistinguished Senator from Ohio, he had been nominated as a compromise candidate at the Republican convention.
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In my view, it was not very interesting; undistinguished and forgettable are the adjectives I would use.
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The outer movements are undistinguished but the central adagio swoons with escapist yearnings for the unattainable.
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But they could have asked that question at any point in Prezza's long and undistinguished political career.
The Sun
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This is a man who has lived 36 undistinguished, meaningless, pointless, failure-laden years and who at this moment looks for an escape, any escape, any way, anything, anybody, to get out of the rut.
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My state is foremost among them as our Republican delegation to Washington, headed by Hutchison and Cornyn, is probably the most undistinguished group of men and women that could be found in our noble state.
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An undistinguished Senator from Ohio, he had been nominated as a compromise candidate at the Republican convention.
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This applies especially to fancy forms with frills and tassels that in a multiple crown produce an undistinguished tangle.
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It is a distinguished feature in an undistinguished landscape; a building or place of outstanding historic, aesthetic or cultural importance.
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Sometimes formal English and informal English are undistinguished.
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But I think if France is in your blood you really have to love those undistinguished little northern towns best.
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For someone of his undoubted talents, this is undistinguished stuff.
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The wild cabbage, Brassica oleracea, is an undistinguished plant, vaguely like a weedy version of a domestic cabbage.
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This applies especially to fancy forms with frills and tassels that in a multiple crown produce an undistinguished tangle.
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The careers of both men had been undistinguished between the Mexican War and the American Civil War.
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The thank-you speech that seems to last almost the length of the film itself has a long, undistinguished history.
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Gypsy Joe, his quarry, gave a cursory glance at the neat youngish undistinguished racegoer reading his racecard six feet away and felt none of the supernatural shudder of foreboding that his ancestry would have expected.
The Elvis Latte
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The origin of a new group often involved the development of new characters by an undistinguished member of an earlier class.
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She has been successful in her career while I have married and have a loving partner but because of frequent illness have had an undistinguished work record.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sometimes formal English and informal English are undistinguished.
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With the Seagram fortune at his disposal, Bronfman embarked on a foray into the entertainment business that many described as undistinguished, culminating in the sale of Seagram and its entertainment holdings (Universal Studios and Universal Music Group) to Vivendi, a diversified French concern.
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Hogg was no ordinary Tory minister, however undistinguished his career.
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It's light-hearted fun in another week of undistinguished dross.
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An undistinguished Senator from Ohio, he had been nominated as a compromise candidate at the Republican convention.
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But what we get is a musically undistinguished, lyrically trite rock-show, tricked out with vampirism, incest and gore.
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I thought the Republicans were saying that Kerry's senate career was "undistinguished" and that nothing he did in his nineteen years in office was of any consequence.
September 2004
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This, of course, made him "undistinguished," unprepared for national office, and the very idea of putting him on a national ticket was practically ridiculous.
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Direct producers would have an undistinguished career, although they had their champions for many years.
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Consider the man's long and massively undistinguished record.
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Under the terms of a complicated and fraught negotiation, Chelsea had to pay £12mof his fee to a gazumped United, who will have felt a great deal less chagrined after Mikel's undistinguished performance here, one of many which have undermined the claims made on his behalf during his teenage years.
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Her style is undistinguished and her characterization slight, but sufficient for the exigencies of the form.
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He worked in a toyshop and was an undistinguished pupil and student, but shone at the Reserve Officers Training Corps.
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A couple of undistinguished losses hastened the end of his career.
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I retrieved a small piece from the ruins as a memento – an undistinguished chunk of cast concrete decoration.
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Well, I will say it's probably the shortest my hair has been since my short and undistinguished time in the U.S. Marines.
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Until 1994, when he was elected governor of Texas, Bush was known as the undistinguished son of a distinguished father.
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This undistinguished youth was to explode into a prominence no one had anticipated.
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They've stripped the ceiling back to reveal the girders and piping, like some dated metropolitan style bar, yet they've kept the chandelier and the flock wallpaper and painted everything else an undistinguished sludgy brown.
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The undistinguished career for the first Delgado racer had come to a very abrupt end.
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This applies especially to fancy forms with frills and tassels that in a multiple crown produce an undistinguished tangle.
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London is one undistinguished mass of soot and fogginess.
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It is populist to promise that prices will be lower, but price controls have an undistinguished history.
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It's light-hearted fun in another week of undistinguished dross.
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Named one of Parliament's deputy lieutenants in March 1642, his subsequent military record was undistinguished.
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We decided against that peninsula because we are not fond of the excessive heat and humidity thereabouts and we also found the peninsula to be a bit of a scrubby and unscenic flat and undistinguished land except perhaps in the southern part approaching other parts of Southern Mexico and along certain coastal corridors.
Retiring in Yucatan
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The scene is a little changed for the worse: the lovely landscape is now one undistinguished waste of snow, only a little diversified by the great variety of ever-greens in the woods: the romantic winding path down the side of the hill to our farm, on which we used to amuse ourselves with seeing the beaux serpentize, is now a confused, frightful, rugged precipice, which one trembles at the idea of ascending.
The History of Emily Montague
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His dad, Milt, had an undistinguished professional career after starring at Louisville.
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Our propensity to indulge in crude condemnation has a long, undistinguished history.
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The heritage experts described the contemporary building - which the developers have called The Wave - as an ‘undistinguished, unharmonious and overbearing addition to the street scene’.
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With a shudder he turned back and entered the ball once more, just as unnoticeable and undistinguished as he had been when he first arrived.
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At 26-47 the best way to describe the Knicks 'season so far is "undistinguished".
Blazersedge
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Immediately four faint, narrow lines appeared, bracketing a tiny and undistinguished star.
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Direct producers would have an undistinguished career, although they had their champions for many years.
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He would have been the first to admit that his political career was undistinguished.
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The other three enjoy undistinguished but lengthy careers.
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Faced with entering the working world or graduate school they confront the reality of their undistinguished academic career.
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Hillary was an undistinguished lawyer the smartest woman in the world but a bar exam flunker largely trading on hubby's clout, then a housewife, and then a 1+ term Senator of middling at best accomplishment.
"As the red light atop the camera went dark... there was still much more I wanted to say to Chris Matthews, much more that I needed to say."
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We had been driving along beside an undistinguished fringe of unmaintained deciduous wood, when the trees suddenly exploded into colour.
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An undistinguished Senator from Ohio, he had been nominated as a compromise candidate at the Republican convention.
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So far, she’s been ... undistinguished is the most kind thing that can be said, awful is more accurate.
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We are listening, with varying degrees of concentration, to an earnest member of the hospital staff as he draws our attention to a series of fairly undistinguished woodcarvings, mounted on the wall adjacent to each ward entrance.
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Direct producers would have an undistinguished career, although they had their champions for many years.
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The outer movements are undistinguished but the central adagio swoons with escapist yearnings for the unattainable.
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Three days ago we ate our first mango of the season, an undistinguished specimen which Mary bought from the fruit lady who pushes her cart past our gate every day.
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My cat was a half-grown black-and-white female of undistinguished origin, guaranteed to be clean and amenable.
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His academic career had been undistinguished, and he was playing for a local club when a chance encounter changed his life.
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Bilal wondered how anybody with such a smile, such an agile turn of phrase, could consider himself undistinguished.
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It was not surprising that he was undistinguished and a mediocre administrator during his stewardship as governor of an agrarian State called Katsina, but regrettable that same man was saddled with the huge responsibility of leading Nigeria by the man who imposed him on the country.
Ademola Bello: Umaru Musa Yar'Adua: A Mediocre Administrator, the Least Prepared Nigerian President Since Shehu Shagari
