Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not sunny; not bright, dazzling, or radiant, as with pleasure or joy; gloomy.
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- adjective Not
sunny
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Examples
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Maybe you have started to notice the unsunny side of human nature more closely now you live there.
Shampoo Planet Coupland, Douglas 1992
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One of the consolations of a fairly unsunny summer is that the bellini is forgiving of any peaches, apricots or nectarines that don't quite fully ripen - just add a little sugar to sweeten after sieving.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The scene at Guardian Towers: One game-by-game reporter, one degree and even more unsunny.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2012
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The scene in Melbourne: 15,000 fans, 33 degrees, humid and unsunny.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2012
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This, not incidentally, is why California's worldbeating solar plant is being built by a company HQ'd in notoriously unsunny Germany.
MetaFilter 2010
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To cap things off, a published selection from the journals in 1991 gave vivid testimony to the presence of an unsunny life, during most of which, as Benjamin Cheever put it, his father "suffered from a loneliness so acute as to be practically indistinguishable from a physical illness."
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Tomorrow is the Presidential Election of course, and the Samizdata commentariat is in its usually unsunny mood (see this posting today in particular).
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Tomorrow is the Presidential Election of course, and the Samizdata commentariat is in its usually unsunny mood (see this posting today in particular).
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