Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not solicitous.

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  • adjective Not solicitous.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ solicitous

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Examples

  •     He'd come uninvited, but not unexpected; if it was rude of us to be such unsolicitous hosts, I told myself, it was only rudeness paid in kind, so we tried to forgive one another, Willie and I, for our eager, curious hunger grown insatiable.

    Heron Lake 2009

  • And, if they don't like it, people are likely to be far less irritated and unsolicitous having shelled out only $2 than being out $8 and have five beers they don't like.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • And, if they don't like it, people are likely to be far less irritated and unsolicitous having shelled out only $2 than being out $8 and have five beers they don't like.

    A Frustrating Quest 2007

  • If we enter the nearest institution of Charity Sisters, Sisters of Mercy, or of the Poor, we cannot fail to remark the contrast between the healthful, cheery, unsolicitous countenances of the inmates, and the nervous, suffering, careworn faces of the wives and mothers in our midst.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 Various

  • Like most supernatural virtues, it has a laic shadow; the counsel to abstain, and to be unsolicitous, is one not only of perfection, but also of polity.

    The Precept of Peace 1921

  • On the right, perhaps, would be a shop all open to the road, where, cross-legged upon a kind of daïs, the merchant sat among his piled wares, unenterprising and unsolicitous, serenely confident in the balance-sheet of fate.

    Apologia Diffidentis 1905

  • As to what became of them, Tanqueray had never seen anybody more unsolicitous, more reckless of the dark event.

    The Creators A Comedy May Sinclair 1904

  • Mr Elliot had attempted no apology, and shewn himself as unsolicitous of being longer noticed by the family, as Sir Walter considered him unworthy of it: all acquaintance between them had ceased.

    Persuasion 1892

  • Mr Elliot had attempted no apology, and shewn himself as unsolicitous of being longer noticed by the family, as Sir Walter considered him unworthy of it: all acquaintance between them had ceased.

    Persuasion Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 1892

  • Meshach kept him respectably dressed, but paid him no wages; the negro had what he wanted, but wanted little; on more than one occasion the court had imposed penalties on Samson's breaches of the peace, and he lay in jail, unsolicitous and proud, until Meshach Milburn paid the fine, which he did grudgingly; for money was Meshach's sole pursuit, and he spent nothing upon himself.

    The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877

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