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unenterˈtaining, ppl. a.
(un-1 10.)
1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. (1703) 38 If he is silent and unentertaining to a visiter, the spleen is his excuse. 1748W. Melmoth Fitzosborne Lett. xlvii. (1749) II. 20 His conversation is unentertaining: for..all that he utters is delivered with labour and hesitation. 1796Hist. Ned Evans II. 118 The ceremony of adoption being somewhat singular it may not be unentertaining to relate it. 1837Syd. Smith 2nd Let. to Singleton ⁋21 The idea of abandoning this taxation..is not unentertaining.
Hence unenterˈtainingly adv., -ness.
1740Gray Let. to West 25 Sept., Last post I received a very diminutive letter. It made excuses for its unentertainingness. 1847Webster, Unentertainingly. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. v. 146 A conceited and unentertainingly troublesome little monkey. |