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  • adjective Not shiny.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ shiny

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Examples

  • The down side of this is that the whole thing may still be thoroughly unshiny when I finish this set of revisions.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2008

  • But I have hopes that, if so, it will be unshiny and moderately sensical.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2008

  • I decided that Betty Ann had inherited her plainness from her mother, who, although tall and stately in posture, was quite unremarkable in looks and had that same pale complexion and unshiny hair.

    Twilight’s Child V.C. ANDREWS 1992

  • I decided that Betty Ann had inherited her plainness from her mother, who, although tall and stately in posture, was quite unremarkable in looks and had that same pale complexion and unshiny hair.

    Twilight’s Child V.C. ANDREWS 1992

  • I am leisure, I am travel, wine, a shiny hat, and an unshiny coat.

    Fantastic Fables Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1899

  • The very elements conspired in her behalf, and produced a still, unshiny day, when the pageant of the melodrama appeared to the best advantage, and the voices rose clear and distinct to that upper window, before which Lavender stood, a muffled figure, in

    A College Girl George de Horne Vaizey 1887

  • I am leisure, I am travel, wine, a shiny hat, and an unshiny coat.

    Fantastic Fables Ambrose Bierce 1878

  • Adams and Blunt are both beautiful, of course, even (or especially) with unshiny hair and imperfect skin, but they nail their characters 'broken-down shorthand, the way even their impatience itself seems worn out and familiar.

    Filmcritic.com Movie Reviews 2009

  • Adams and Blunt are both beautiful, of course, even (or especially) with unshiny hair and imperfect skin, but they nail their characters 'broken-down shorthand, the way even their impatience itself seems worn out and familiar.

    Filmcritic.com Movie Reviews 2009

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