Definitions

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  • adjective Not emitting a glow of light.
  • adjective Not conveying praise.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ glowing

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Examples

  • From somewhere, the blue pegs that I wanted appeared in my hand, unglowing until I plugged them into her eye sockets.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Matthew Sanborn Smith 2006

  • From somewhere, the blue pegs that I wanted appeared in my hand, unglowing until I plugged them into her eye sockets.

    Life Was Lite, Life Was Brite Matthew Sanborn Smith 2006

  • It came at last with a mother-of-pearl sheen at the zenith, such as I had never seen before in the tropics, unglowing, almost gray, with a strange reminder of high latitudes.

    The Shadow Line 1917

  • Higher and higher into the firmament shot the front of the advancing ranks in twisting curls of inky smoke, yet all the while the mass dropped nearer and nearer to the earth and the light of day departed, save where low down in the west a band of pale gold lay against the horizon, color and nothing more, as unglowing as a yellow streak in a painted sunset.

    The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton Wardon Allan Curtis 1903

  • A grey - green expanse of smudgy waters grinning angrily at one with white foam - ridges, and over all a cheerless, unglowing canopy, apparently made of wet blotting-paper.

    Notes on Life and Letters Joseph Conrad 1890

  • It came at last with a mother-of-pearl sheen at the zenith, such as I had never seen before in the tropics, unglowing, almost gray, with a strange reminder of high latitudes.

    The Shadow Line; a confession Joseph Conrad 1890

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