Definitions

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  • Not desirous.

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  • adjective Not desirous

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  • adjective having or feeling no desire

Etymologies

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un- +‎ desirous

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Examples

  • “Which way, then, my lord?” said the young Templar, who was perhaps not undesirous to parade a part at least of the street in company with a lord, though but a Scottish one.

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • I woke up naturally around 6am, and unable to fall back asleep and undesirous of having to speak with them, packed up my stuff and got the hell out of there.

    evolver Diary Entry evolver 2004

  • They rarely get beyond Luchon; and in this they are right, as they thus end their peregrinations at the most lovely spot among these mountains, and are as a rule so deceived, imposed on, and bewildered by guides, innkeepers, and horse-owners, at this otherwise delightful place, as to become undesirous of further travel.

    Tales of all countries 2004

  • It also makes them undesirous of dominating, for, as many

    Discourses 2003

  • With the advice and consent of the robot brain itself, the positronicomputer had been reprogrammed by Rhodan so that such undesirous actions as had happened in the past would never be repeated.

    The Venus Trap Mahr, Kurt 1972

  • Some writers on etiquette have felt that, since a gentleman can never know when a lady is in a context where she will be undesirous of having herself identified, the initiation should at all times come from the female:

    Behavior in Public Places ERVING GOFFMAN 1963

  • He was not undesirous of reputation both as a poet and prose-writer, and has recorded his regret that he had devoted so much time to evanescent periodical literature.

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

  • Not that I care anything for the Englishman, but my husband is undesirous of defying the commands of the Council.

    Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine Annie T. Colcock

  • "Tom!" exclaimed Ruth, and for perhaps the first time in her life she seemed undesirous of hearing about Tom Cameron.

    Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands Alice B. Emerson

  • This was news, indeed, to bewilder nations who had hitherto remained content in infantile tutelage, unconscious, undesirous, of the rights of men!

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various

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