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  • adjective Not indulgent.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ indulgent

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Examples

  • Dalgliesh reproached himself for the streak of puri-tanism which compared the room unfavourably with the snug, unindulgent shabbiness of Father Baddeley's sitting-room.

    She Closed Her Eyes 2010

  • So I asked my madrasi friend for a suggestion and he with is ever unindulgent tone said, " Oh, make some kara kozhambu".

    Archive 2007-04-01 bhags 2007

  • So I asked my madrasi friend for a suggestion and he with is ever unindulgent tone said, " Oh, make some kara kozhambu".

    Celery kozhambu bhags 2007

  • Mrs. Davis, however, was no stern monitor, unindulgent to the weakness of human nature.

    The Three Clerks 2004

  • My brother will tell you that I am proud, unindulgent, and hasty to take offence, but I doubt whether John Franklin will confirm it, although there is more truth in the charge than I wish there were.

    The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 1914

  • My brother will tell you that I am proud, unindulgent, and hasty to take offence, but I doubt whether John Franklin will confirm it, although there is more truth in the charge than I wish there were.

    The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Ernest Scott 1903

  • Sternly gazed the first newcomer on the unindulgent crowd,

    The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902

  • Mrs. Davis, however, was no stern monitor, unindulgent to the weakness of human nature.

    The Three Clerks Anthony Trollope 1848

  • His treatment of Switzerland was equally unindulgent.

    Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835

  • It sounds so unindulgent - sweet potato, cauliflower and coconut milk - but it was unputdownable.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

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