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Unenterprising   Listen
adjective
Unenterprising  adj.  See enterprising.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Unenterprising" Quotes from Famous Books



... should be so, the future is dark for those of us who believe that individual effort is the soul of industrial and financial progress, and that industry carried on by Government Departments, however efficient and economical it might be, would be such a deadly dull and unenterprising business that all the adaptability and tendency to variation in accordance with the needs of the moment, which are so strongly shown by individual enterprise, would be lost, to the great detriment of ...
— War-Time Financial Problems • Hartley Withers

... boats with the corn! Why did they not come? We both wrote and sent to hasten them, but, alas! everything and everybody moved so slowly in those unenterprising times! We could only feel sure that they would come when they were ready, and not ...
— Wau-bun - The Early Day in the Northwest • Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie

... they were induced to brave the perils of escape, in almost every case, by the desperate horror with which they regarded being sold south,—a doom which was hanging either over themselves or their husbands, their wives or children. This nerves the African, naturally patient, timid and unenterprising, with heroic courage, and leads him to suffer hunger, cold, pain, the perils of the wilderness, and the more ...
— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe



Words linked to "Unenterprising" :   unadventurous, nonenterprising, unenergetic, slowgoing



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