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Unoriginal

adjective

Not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual. "His life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"

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"Unoriginal" Quotes from Famous Books

... Napoleon sheer brutality predominated. The image of one who was said to be the richest man of the world also rose before his eyes. Perhaps it was only the play of his fevered imagination, but he could have sworn that this man's features, too, bore the mark of those unoriginal, great absorptive minds who, for better or for worse, are born to rob and rule. They seemed to him monsters that know neither justice nor pity, only the law of their ...

— The House of the Vampire • George Sylvester Viereck

... resistance. I translated it vaguely into a personification of the mightily disturbed elements, investing them with the horror of a deliberate and malefic purpose, resentful of our audacious intrusion into their breeding-place; whereas my friend threw it into the unoriginal form at first of a trespass on some ancient shrine, some place where the old gods still held sway, where the emotional forces of former worshipers still clung, and the ancestral portion of him yielded ...

— Famous Modern Ghost Stories • Various

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