unoriginallyadv.
/(ˌ)ʌnəˈrɪdʒᵻnl̩i/, /(ˌ)ʌnəˈrɪdʒᵻnəli/, U.S. /ˌənəˈrɪdʒ(ə)nəli/ In an unoriginal manner; conventionally; unthinkingly; tritely.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adverb] > in manner lacking originality
unoriginally1893
1893 Black & White 21 Jan. 79/2 Sending him or her back to the shires to play one of the parts thus observed, unoriginally and in a fashion as like that of the artist watched as possible.
1912 E. A. U. Valentine Labyrinth of Life i. ii. 26 He was young, with, as Miss Vanderhurst unoriginally remarked, ‘the world before him’.
1964 Archivum Linguisticum 16 15 Several handbooks discuss our problem either too cursorily or too unoriginally to invite analysis.
2008 E. Favorite Heroines ii. xix. 147 I, typically and unoriginally, took out my anger on my mother.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adv.1893- cell formation
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