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  • adjective Not terrifying.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ terrifying

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Examples

  • As for Haley, he pours every bit of menace he can muster into Krueger but can't overcome the listless direction by Samuel Bayer, or the completely unterrifying, updated Krueger makeup job foisted onto his face.

    Movie review - 'A Nightmare on Elm Street': A real nightmare without old Freddy 2010

  • She lay still for a few moments, luxuriating in the innocent egotism of this view of her future, which was none the less absorbing for being so entirely unterrifying, and then sprang up, impatient to begin it.

    The Squirrel-Cage Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • They never descended to the ravine, because it was so unpoetic, a treeless, shallow, dull, unterrifying spot.

    Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915

  • But the day I sit down, anticipating a decent blast-fest, with the obligatory six-pack of Fosters, copy of What Car and nice juicy rump steak, to watch the utterly unterrifying McAvoy blow stuff up in Wanted, is the day I smash my tattered VHS copy of Universal Soldier to smithereens.

    Culture | guardian.co.uk 2008

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