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Definition of unheroic in English: unheroicadjectiveʌnhɪˈrəʊɪkˌənhəˈroʊɪk Not heroic. 不英勇的；胆怯的 非英雄式的死亡。 Example sentencesExamples - Loyalists knew they were fighting a dark, largely unheroic war, directed against defenceless civilians.
- Nowadays, with the mere mention of its name inducing mockery at Europe's top table, it performs the unheroic function of ensuring humiliation for smaller clubs and nations.
- It moves to an unnamed South American country, where its unheroic hero William, ostensibly running a loss-making British bookshop, is recruited as a spy and takes part in a coup.
- He must be unheroic and yet brave, gauche and yet practical, ill and yet strong.
- It now looks impressively authentic, but audiences weren't yet ready for such an unheroic take on the war.
- In this case, I don't mean that Ash is a heroic figure who accomplishes his goals in unheroic ways.
- It's a book discussing what makes a military leader, and goes through examples of the hero, the anti-hero, the unheroic, and the false heroic.
- Murder - i.e. the killing of another person when there were other options than killing - is a constant in a lot of our media, and is not unheroic behaviour, or at least does not make the character unheroic.
- Venus' face is a blurred reflection in a mirror and in Mars (which depicts the unheroic body of a strong old man got up in drapes and a helmet) the face is in shadow.
- He was at his most sensible best, organising funds and trying to get the decidedly unheroic Greeks to fight as if they were their glorious ancestors.
- He was a dull, monotonous speaker - an unheroic, middle-sized, stolid, plain soldier.
- Without its focal point, the Boulangist movement rapidly splintered, leaving the general to compensate for his unheroic flight by romantically committing suicide on his mistress's tomb in Brussels in September 1891.
- Were its political leaders unheroic (just ‘triers’, as one of them recently suggested) or did its peaceful history deny them the heroic role which revolution and civil war conferred on Washington and Lincoln?
- Chances are the story will be bogus or, even if genuine, the publicity process will render the hero decidedly unheroic.
- In this case, it is the story of a heroic time told by a quite unheroic, irritable, meticulous, but affectionate and completely determined human being.
- We've rarely seen him in such unheroic mode (at one point he even breaks down and weeps), though he does radiate the intensity of a desperate dad.
- I felt that, in disobeying the law, I was honouring them in my own small, unheroic and doubtless futile way.
- Part of the problem is that multilateralism and international collaboration are necessarily unheroic and inherently full of compromises.
- Why read stories concerning unheroic, unlovely people who fail to realise the futility of their modest dreams?
- They were curiously matched as unheroic, down-to-earth, but knowing outsiders on their respective sides.
Synonyms shameful, dishonourable, ignominious, discreditable, disgraceful, humiliating, mortifying, demeaning, shaming, ignoble, abject, undignified, wretched, shabby
Derivativesadverb In Britain, the badge of distinction awarded to historic buildings is unheroically called ` listing’. Example sentencesExamples - The man himself was killed, merely 22 years old, allegedly, and rather unheroically, run over by a truck.
- Why would an otherwise brave hero - one of the greatest at Troy - act so unheroically at this point?
- All this work goes on quietly, unheroically, with no awards, medals or statues of recognition.
- They also often act more selfishly and unheroically than the more likable characters.
Definition of unheroic in US English: unheroicadjectiveˌənhəˈroʊɪkˌənhəˈrōik Not heroic. 不英勇的；胆怯的 非英雄式的死亡。 Example sentencesExamples - It's a book discussing what makes a military leader, and goes through examples of the hero, the anti-hero, the unheroic, and the false heroic.
- Venus' face is a blurred reflection in a mirror and in Mars (which depicts the unheroic body of a strong old man got up in drapes and a helmet) the face is in shadow.
- In this case, I don't mean that Ash is a heroic figure who accomplishes his goals in unheroic ways.
- He was a dull, monotonous speaker - an unheroic, middle-sized, stolid, plain soldier.
- In this case, it is the story of a heroic time told by a quite unheroic, irritable, meticulous, but affectionate and completely determined human being.
- Were its political leaders unheroic (just ‘triers’, as one of them recently suggested) or did its peaceful history deny them the heroic role which revolution and civil war conferred on Washington and Lincoln?
- They were curiously matched as unheroic, down-to-earth, but knowing outsiders on their respective sides.
- Murder - i.e. the killing of another person when there were other options than killing - is a constant in a lot of our media, and is not unheroic behaviour, or at least does not make the character unheroic.
- Without its focal point, the Boulangist movement rapidly splintered, leaving the general to compensate for his unheroic flight by romantically committing suicide on his mistress's tomb in Brussels in September 1891.
- Loyalists knew they were fighting a dark, largely unheroic war, directed against defenceless civilians.
- Nowadays, with the mere mention of its name inducing mockery at Europe's top table, it performs the unheroic function of ensuring humiliation for smaller clubs and nations.
- He was at his most sensible best, organising funds and trying to get the decidedly unheroic Greeks to fight as if they were their glorious ancestors.
- It moves to an unnamed South American country, where its unheroic hero William, ostensibly running a loss-making British bookshop, is recruited as a spy and takes part in a coup.
- Part of the problem is that multilateralism and international collaboration are necessarily unheroic and inherently full of compromises.
- He must be unheroic and yet brave, gauche and yet practical, ill and yet strong.
- It now looks impressively authentic, but audiences weren't yet ready for such an unheroic take on the war.
- Chances are the story will be bogus or, even if genuine, the publicity process will render the hero decidedly unheroic.
- We've rarely seen him in such unheroic mode (at one point he even breaks down and weeps), though he does radiate the intensity of a desperate dad.
- I felt that, in disobeying the law, I was honouring them in my own small, unheroic and doubtless futile way.
- Why read stories concerning unheroic, unlovely people who fail to realise the futility of their modest dreams?
Synonyms shameful, dishonourable, ignominious, discreditable, disgraceful, humiliating, mortifying, demeaning, shaming, ignoble, abject, undignified, wretched, shabby
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