Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not enterprising; not adventurous.
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- adjective Lacking the property of being
enterprising .
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- adjective lacking in enterprise; not bold or venturesome
Etymologies
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Examples
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I also point out that Lord Durham, who traveled along the Canadian-American border in 1838, used almost identical imagery to contrast the "activity and bustle" of the American side with the "waste and desolate" of the "unenterprising" Canadians.
The Big Business of Slavery Flanders, Steven 1999
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Unsure whom to trust and afraid of getting things wrong or being accused of bias, unenterprising journalists go for "balance," even if one side is the entire scientific community and the other side is a bunch of lobbyists.
Charles Alexander: Exposed: Global Warming Deniers Charles Alexander 2010
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The contract made an overtrick, which must have pleased North, since she was apparently "a somewhat unenterprising partner fond of insisting on her own suits".
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Unsure whom to trust and afraid of getting things wrong or being accused of bias, unenterprising journalists go for "balance," even if one side is the entire scientific community and the other side is a bunch of lobbyists.
Charles Alexander: Exposed: Global Warming Deniers Charles Alexander 2010
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The contract made an overtrick, which must have pleased North, since she was apparently "a somewhat unenterprising partner fond of insisting on her own suits".
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Unsure whom to trust and afraid of getting things wrong or being accused of bias, unenterprising journalists go for "balance," even if one side is the entire scientific community and the other side is a bunch of lobbyists.
Charles Alexander: Exposed: Global Warming Deniers Charles Alexander 2010
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Unsure whom to trust and afraid of getting things wrong or being accused of bias, unenterprising journalists go for "balance," even if one side is the entire scientific community and the other side is a bunch of lobbyists.
Charles Alexander: Exposed: Global Warming Deniers Charles Alexander 2010
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Unsure whom to trust and afraid of getting things wrong or being accused of bias, unenterprising journalists go for "balance," even if one side is the entire scientific community and the other side is a bunch of lobbyists.
Charles Alexander: Exposed: Global Warming Deniers Charles Alexander 2010
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Treading Dangerously One of the prevailing snobberies among Parisians is that the provinces are teeming with unenterprising folk shuffling about in slippers.
All Aboard for le Cinéma Français Lennox Morrison 2011
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Unsure whom to trust and afraid of getting things wrong or being accused of bias, unenterprising journalists go for "balance," even if one side is the entire scientific community and the other side is a bunch of lobbyists.
Charles Alexander: Exposed: Global Warming Deniers Charles Alexander 2010
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