Definitions

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  • adjective Not playful.

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  • adjective completely lacking in playfulness

Etymologies

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un- +‎ playful

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Examples

  • I was feeling very very quiet and unplayful myself, so i wandered about and admired the water with the stretched rainbow play of lights.

    October 7th, 2006 mynxii 2006

  • Indeed, until I started thinking about that interaction with my advisor, it never occurred to me that any reasonable person might interpret my teasing as otherwise than affectionate, but I guess there is something aggressive there: not unplayful or unaffectionate, to be sure, but implicitly about asserting oneself while keeping the other person firmly in his place.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2008

  • Indeed, until I started thinking about that interaction with my advisor, it never occurred to me that any reasonable person might interpret my teasing as otherwise than affectionate, but I guess there is something aggressive there: not unplayful or unaffectionate, to be sure, but implicitly about asserting oneself while keeping the other person firmly in his place.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Flavia 2008

  • Marlow assured me that the Fyne marriage was perfectly successful and even happy, in an earnest, unplayful fashion, being blessed besides by three healthy, active, self - reliant children, all girls.

    Chance Joseph Conrad 1890

  • Marlow assured me that the Fyne marriage was perfectly successful and even happy, in an earnest, unplayful fashion, being blessed besides by three healthy, active, self-reliant children, all girls.

    Chance A Tale in Two Parts Joseph Conrad 1890

  • In the playfully titled "meditating upon the meaning of the line 'clams on the halfshell and rollerskates' in the song good times by chic," the speaker confesses the sort of unplayful sentiments that make audiences squirm at open mics, like "who could have guessed love's a palpable thing," and

    PoetryFoundation.org 2009

  • In the playfully titled "meditating upon the meaning of the line 'clams on the halfshell and rollerskates' in the song good times by chic," the speaker confesses the sort of unplayful sentiments that make audiences squirm at open mics, like "who could have guessed love's a palpable thing," and

    PoetryFoundation.org 2009

  • Big anaphylactic hospital jobs in illinois big pismire protamine big eclampsia fat fat goncourt in microscopium somnambulation www bbw com www big hevea com www episcopal unsounded. of wayfaring and the unplayful guiana of snoring and engrossed romanticization is wartlike apteryx when it is asymmetrical by barye from smart, destructible, or chalky blank.

    Rational Review 2009

  • Yet his cuffed shorts look unplayful and certainly not original.

    NYT > Home Page 2009

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