Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not intriguing.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

un- +‎ intriguing

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word unintriguing.

Examples

  • At any rate, women did not find his appearance unintriguing, and when the muscular gringo stepped-jaunty, yet somehow dignified-through the door in his white suit and guarded smile, two or three bamboo-colored curls snailing out from under his Panama hat, there was a sudden quickening of more than one female pulse.

    Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • At any rate, women did not find his appearance unintriguing, and when the muscular gringo stepped-jaunty, yet somehow dignified-through the door in his white suit and guarded smile, two or three bamboo-colored curls snailing out from under his Panama hat, there was a sudden quickening of more than one female pulse.

    Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • 'A modest, unintriguing man, 'as Vertue calls him, he was quite satisfied with being second in command, no matter how ignorant and inefficient might be his captain.

    Art in England Notes and Studies Dutton Cook 1856

  • Winter's Bone, Debra Granik's dramatic competition entry, is arguably the strangest-sound and most unintriguing title among all the films showing at Sundance 2010.

    Hollywood Elsewhere 2010

  • Yet the splashiest pieces, if initially arresting, are universally unintriguing (and only partially because they have so much company).

    Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories 2009

  • He used every means that the tenderest affection and the nicest honour could suggest to persuade me to marry him; and the conflict in my own heart very near reduced me to my grave; till at length pitying the condition into which I was reduced, without the least approach to a change of purpose, he promised to spare me any further solicitation and to bury his affliction in silence; after obtaining a promise from me that I would suffer him to contrive the means for concealing an event which must soon happen; as my unintriguing spirit made me very incapable of managing it with tolerable art and secrecy.

    A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue Sarah Scott 1759

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.