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undesirous /ʌndɪˈzʌɪərəs /adjective [predicative] formalNot wanting or wishing something: the prince was undesirous of seeing the Lady Anne...- I stood up softly, undesirous of disturbing my companions, but with my heart beating now rather more rapidly with surprise and excitement.
- Adverse to wrangling with one who was a friend, and undesirous at the time to enter upon a defence of details and internal evidence - a loss of time indeed - the writer answered merely with a few sentences.
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