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- adjective of speech or writing Not
flowery ; simple, direct, and possiblyaustere .
Etymologies
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Examples
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We saw Woodward and Bernstein rid the nation of the scourge of Nixon not through sit-ins but through dogged professionalism -- an idea that was like catnip to unflowery children of the '70s.
Will Bunch: Along Came "Jones": Why My Generation Isn't Saving the World 2010
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We saw Woodward and Bernstein rid the nation of the scourge of Nixon not through sit-ins but through dogged professionalism -- an idea that was like catnip to unflowery children of the '70s.
Will Bunch: Along Came "Jones": Why My Generation Isn't Saving the World 2010
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He was also know to be a poet in his non-medical hours and the Duwamish were plain, unflowery speakers, so the one eye-witness account of the speech is highly suspect.
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Then he explained in quiet, unflowery, gestureless language.
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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The New Orleans editor has a strong, compact, direct, unflowery style; wastes no words, and does not gush.
Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872
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The New Orleans editor has a strong, compact, direct, unflowery style; wastes no words, and does not gush.
Life on the Mississippi, Part 9. Mark Twain 1872
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The New Orleans editor has a strong, compact, direct, unflowery style; wastes no words, and does not gush.
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Corgan issued a statement on Friday with the unflowery epitaph: "Jimmy Chamberlin has left the group."
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There's more than enough trash-talking to go with the tulips this spring on Parliament Hill, with some distinctly unflowery themes (Fiscal mismanagement!
Torontoist 2009
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