untalented
/ʌnˈtaləntɪd/
US pronunciation
American sound/ʌnˈtaləntɪd/
ʌnˈtaləntɪd
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- 2nd syllable stress
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ʌn - ˈtaləntɪd -> untalented
Myanmar meaning
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untalented /ʌn'tælǝntÇd / adj
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- ‘During the 1820s, a pompous and untalented versifier referred to the Pacific as a ‘liquid waste’, which makes it sound like sewage.’
- ‘Actors are usually, on the whole, thick, desperate, untalented and always thinking, ‘What about me?’
- ‘This success will help these students be more comfortable in drawing later and not think that they are untalented in art.’
- ‘The only cursed people I know are the untalented actors and actresses that somehow manage to get cast, based on good auditions and producers who forget how bad they were in their last work.’
- ‘He was the classic dour, authoritarian socialist, a masterly desk and committee politician but disdainful of and untalented at electoral politics.’
- ‘By 1914 former reformists were beginning to regard violence as the only means left to loosen a regime which seemed more and more intolerant, intolerable, and, worse, untalented.’
- ‘Throw all the money in the world at an untalented writer and they will stay untalented and you can bet a promising one will be standing right behind them, on the verge of giving up.’
- ‘Dreams are the last refuge of the untalented writer.’
- ‘Sometimes when you go through the papers, you have to read that you're a boring, untalented person, and you have to live with that.’
- ‘Realistically, the national team that has ended Zambia's treasured record of seven straight appearances at the Africa Cup finals would have found themselves not only ill-equipped for the Tunisia job but also untalented.’
- ‘It's not that he's untalented - in fact, his DJ-ing skills are clearly top-notch as he deftly weaves his jazzy samples into a cohesive whole.’
- ‘I cannot recall a movie that has starred so many untalented people who cannot act.’
- ‘As he warns, you don't want to hire untalented women who'll just write about ‘women's issues.’’
- ‘Too often the SAC has drip-fed amateurish and incompetent publishers, sustained untalented writers who would rather run a workshop than confront a blank screen and baled out magazines which are barely literate.’
- ‘Historically, the talented ones have been the ones to survive and pass along their genetic material - the untalented or unfit have died off without reproducing, thus advancing our species.’
- ‘There are too many earnest, young, untalented performers (mostly from English and American Universities) who mount abbreviated versions of classic plays and who have minimal directing and acting abilities.’
- ‘Are you honestly telling me that Botticelli was untalented?’
- ‘There were the appallingly untalented, removed from that friendly mirror in their bedroom, dancing like stick insects with St Vitus dance and impaling themselves on hideous voices.’
- ‘This pretentious, precious, pseudo-poetic, name-dropping drivel is one of those endless monologues that in the hands of an arrogant, untalented twit become menaces to society.’
- ‘The imposing residence of the director has been turned over to the Sydney Writers' Centre where the untalented are pursued by the incompetent.’
Synonyms
inept, clumsy, awkward, incompetent, maladroit, unskilled, amateurish, all thumbs, blundering, blunderous, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, clownish, crude, elephantine, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, green, ham-handed, heavy, heavy-handed, helpless, hulking, ill-shaped, inadequate, inelegant, inexperienced, inexpert, inproficient, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, not up to, oafish, ponderous, raw, splay, stumbling, unable, unadept, uncoordinated, uncouth, undeveloped, undexterous, uneasy, uneducated, unequipped, ungainly, unhandy, unqualified, unschooled, unskillful, untactful, untoward, untrained, unwieldy, weedy
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