Definitions
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- adverb In an
unrefreshing way.
Etymologies
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unrefreshing + -ly
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Examples
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When she turned her attention to sexuality, her art became less mysterious but these works can be unrefreshingly coy.
Daring and Disturbing Schwartz, Sanford 2008
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They never "met" her in the language of controversy; but always collected to watch her, with smiles and comfortable platitudes, as if they envied her superior richness of temperament She took an interest in Georgina, who seemed to her different from the others, with suggestions about her of being likely not to marry so unrefreshingly as her sisters had done, and of a high, bold standard of duty.
Georgina's Reasons Henry James 1879
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