Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not interesting; not affecting; not belonging to one.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Not interesting or affecting; insignificant; not belonging to one.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Not
interesting oraffecting ;insignificant .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Other ambassadors -- particularly those of Venice -- pander to their Governments 'wishes in this respect, conscious that there is a sycophancy in slander contrasted with which the ordinary sycophancy of flattery is as water to wine; they diligently send home every scrap of indecent or scandalous rumour they can pick up in the Roman ante - chambers, however unlikely, uncorroborated, or unconcerning the business of an ambassador.
The Life of Cesare Borgia Sabatini, Rafael, 1875-1950 1912
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Other ambassadors -- particularly those of Venice -- pander to their Governments 'wishes in this respect, conscious that there is a sycophancy in slander contrasted with which the ordinary sycophancy of flattery is as water to wine; they diligently send home every scrap of indecent or scandalous rumour they can pick up in the Roman ante-chambers, however unlikely, uncorroborated, or unconcerning the business of an ambassador.
The Life of Cesare Borgia Rafael Sabatini 1912
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He looks only at the soul; all outward distinctions of rank and place, fortune, pride, poverty, disappear as unconcerning things; he sees all men as in the light of the judgment day.
Nathaniel Hawthorne Woodberry, George E 1902
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He looks only at the soul; all outward distinctions of rank and place, fortune, pride, poverty, disappear as unconcerning things; he sees all men as in the light of the judgment day.
Nathaniel Hawthorne George Edward Woodberry 1892
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And sly Affability, which is not only to be used in common and unconcerning speech, but upon all occasions.
George Washington's Rules of Civility Conway, M D 1890
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Donne calls "unconcerning things, matters of fact," -- between substantial personages, whose contact or even neighborhood is influential, and the supernumeraries that serve first to fill up a stage and afterwards the interstices of a biographical dictionary.
Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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And he presently after we had seated our selves, shutting the Books that lay open, and turning to us with a smiling countenance seemed ready to begin some such unconcerning discourse as is wont to pass or rather waste the time in promiscuous companies.
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The woman who died was the result of a careless, unconcerning man.
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Ask Moxie (can't find exact link, sorry), unconcerning for a breastfed baby.
Indigo Girl 2008
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Yea what a Hypocrite and unconcerning President Bush is THousands killed on our home soil and he couldn’t even focus in capturing Binladen, Now that was Truely a Slap in the American people’s face and the living families of those lost, that His Presidency did not care to capture a Mass Murderer of America!
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