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  • adjective Not audacious.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ audacious

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Examples

  • He was there all along -- just doing what candidates do, an unaudacious, middle-path guy speaking audaciously.

    Sharon O'Connell: Barack Obama, Where Have You Gone? Oh, There. Sharon O'Connell 2011

  • Reading about the urban peregrinations of the unaudacious Leopold Bloom on a single June day in 1904, you will encounter the English language in its widest variety, from the street patois of Edwardian Dublin to sentences and paragraphs as classically beautiful and vivacious as Mozart's notes.

    Five Best Frank Delaney 2010

  • Reading about the urban peregrinations of the unaudacious Leopold Bloom on a single June day in 1904, you will encounter the English language in its widest variety, from the street patois of Edwardian Dublin to sentences and paragraphs as classically beautiful and vivacious as Mozart's notes.

    Five Best Frank Delaney 2010

  • Reading about the urban peregrinations of the unaudacious Leopold Bloom on a single June day in 1904, you will encounter the English language in its widest variety, from the street patois of Edwardian Dublin to sentences and paragraphs as classically beautiful and vivacious as Mozart's notes.

    Five Best Frank Delaney 2010

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