adjective
- not having or showing the qualities of a hero; lacking courage, nobility, or admirable qualities
Examples
- His unheroic retreat from the battlefield disappointed his soldiers.
- The novel’s protagonist was deliberately unheroic and flawed.
- She made an unheroic decision to avoid confronting the bully.
- The unheroic response to the crisis left many feeling let down.
- His unheroic behavior during the emergency was widely criticized.
- The movie portrayed war in an unheroic, realistic way.