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unadˈmiring, ppl. a.
(un-1 10 and 5 d.)
1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. ii. xii. (1872) I. 119 Unadmiring posterity has confirmed the nickname. 1881Times 20 Aug. 9/2 Before an impatient and unadmiring audience.
b. Used with ppl. construction.
1876R. Broughton Joan xxi, Joan looks away again, utterly unadmiring herself.
Hence unadˈmiringly adv.
1862‘Shirley’ Nugæ Crit. iii. 150 One, whose massive brow and chiselled eyelids you..have noted not unadmiringly. |