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- adjective Not
enlivening .
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Examples
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I had never dreamed that a sea voyage could be so unenlivening as this one is proving.
CHAPTER XI 2010
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-- The dreary, monotonous, unenlivening coast line of
In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith
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I had never dreamed that a sea voyage could be so unenlivening as this one is proving.
Chapter 11 1914
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I had never dreamed that a sea voyage could be so unenlivening as this one is proving.
The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896
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There were books with dreary, unenlivening titles, -- egotistic always, as recording Smith's opinions on this, and Jones's commentaries on that.
The Story of a Mine Bret Harte 1869
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_feather beds_, as it may be altered by the traveller, if unpleasant to him, cannot be considered as a _grievance_; but all who have been accustomed to the _social and companionable cheerfulness of a fire_, must regret that custom, which here substitutes for it, the _dull and unenlivening heat of a stove_.
A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium Richard Boyle Bernard
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