Definition of "nonheroic" [nonheroic]

• Not heroic. (adjective)

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• "Unfortunately, because the historians who came of age during the 1960s and 1970s were so eager to make the masses into heroes, they did not see that it was precisely the nonheroic and unseemly characteristics of ordinary folks that changed American culture for the better."
• "Sarge's 2007 deployment had some positive health benefits for me, though for nonheroic reasons."
• "Rather than focus on scenes of battle and heroism, it depicts the results of battles -- carnage -- and the decidedly nonheroic behavoir of its protagonists (except when they're in the operating room trying to undo the damage inflicted by war heroism)."