Lackluster

//ˈlæklʌstə(ɹ)//

"Lackluster" in a Sentence (17 examples)

Her results last year were lackluster.

The electorate is largely uninterested in the lackluster candidates.

It was a lackluster performance.

Tom felt lackluster.

You see, Tom, your articles are like those drawings made by young children: not those bright, colourful works with some semblance of imagination - perhaps with lackluster execution - but rather, the drawings of a simple, everyday schoolchild.

Gelb married his wife, Judith, in 1959, despite her parents’ reservations about his lackluster roots.

From beginning to end Tom has only spoken with a lackluster demeanour.

Ziri spent a lackluster day of hunting.

You’d be surprised how much mess 50 people in a large research station can create. Here at the South Pole, where it takes six months for the sun to rise, it only takes two days for a 30 gallon (113 liter) trashcan in the bathroom to be stuffed to the brim and overflowing with used paper towels. Hallway floors turn from bright white to off white in a little less than a week. Dust accumulates, in every corner, on every surface—the collective residue of the station residents’ epidermis, aggravated by dry air, frigid temperatures, and lackluster use of moisturizing lotions.

His lackluster performance disappointed the audience.

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A faded, and an ancient dragon he was; and many a wintry storm of rain, snow, sleet, and hail, had changed his colour from a gaudy blue to a faint lack-lustre shade of gray.

He sat looking at her with lack-lustre eyes. The light suddenly came back into them.

The actor gave a lackluster performance in his latest film.

An allegedly true story emerges as a lackluster riff on American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street with a scrappy turn from an overly disguised lead star[.]

It’s fascinating to see a show wrap up in a manner wherein many of the flaws so clearly occur offscreen rather than on; the plague of season eight hasn’t been lackluster episodes, for the most part (though “The Last Of The Starks” was a definite low point).

Pressure on the UK government to commit to concrete measures and not just “lacklustre” verbal condemnation if Israel goes ahead with annexation of parts of the West Bank has been stepped up by a coalition of 14 British charities and human rights groups.

Tory MPs said Raab had been “lacklustre”, with one saying his position was “untenable”.

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