Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not ingenious; not witty or clever; stupid; dull.
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- adjective Not
ingenious .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In an uningenious move, John asked Magic Alex to redo the studio.
PAUL IS UNDEAD ALAN GOLDSHER 2010
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Quite unexpected explanations follow in a not uningenious manner, and the explosion is completed by Edmond's opening (not at all treacherously) a letter addressed to Gustave and containing the news of his own danger.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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I observe, among the speculations of modern science, several, lately, not uningenious, and highly industrious, on the subject of the relation of colour in flowers, to insects -- to selective development, etc., etc.
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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The reader does not, I hope, imagine that I mean seriously to set about the refutation of these uningenious paradoxes and reveries without imagination.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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