inappreciation love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Want of appreciation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Lack of appreciation.

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  • noun Lack of appreciation.

Etymologies

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in- +‎ appreciation

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Examples

  • To restrict man, as materialists do, to a physical entity and to a very short part of time and a limited part of space, is the worst of insolence to man and inappreciation of him.

    the truth about life after death 2008

  • We have been talking of his art: I had no notion that art demanded such sacrifices or such tender devotion; or that there were two roads for choice within its precincts, the road of vulgar money-making, and the road of high aims and consequent inappreciation for many long years by the public.

    A Changed Man 2006

  • Somehow, this stolidity and inappreciation of the peril the girl had so recently escaped, made Hiram feel sudden indignation.

    Hiram the Young Farmer Burbank L. Todd

  • You could make no worse mistake, you could injure your own prospects no more, than by showing ignorance of local conditions, or inappreciation of the circumstances in which your prospect's business is being conducted.

    Certain Success Norval A. Hawkins

  • Mrs. Gougerling reported fully, and with some irritation, her husband's inappreciation of liver and bacon.

    Main Street 1920

  • Mrs. Gougerling reported fully, and with some irritation, her husband's inappreciation of liver and bacon.

    Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • He smiled indulgently, concealing a hurt, not altogether new, at her persistent inappreciation of this side of his nature and life in which he took the greatest pride.

    Chapter 1 1905

  • He smiled indulgently, concealing a hurt, not altogether new, at her persistent inappreciation of this side of his nature and life in which he took the greatest pride.

    Chapter 1 1905

  • If Ada thought more firmly to establish her domination over Christophe by such an act, that proved once more her gross inappreciation of her lover.

    Jean-Christophe, Volume I Romain Rolland 1905

  • For the third time he parted from her to go off to the wars, more impressed than ever by the sense of his inappreciation of her virtues.

    The Mountebank William John Locke 1896

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