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  • adjective Not youthful.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ youthful

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Examples

  • It's not just he weight, which is much more obvious when she's naked, it's the general "unyouthful" look she has.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2009

  • As yet it had not sunk into his consciousness that his unyouthful knowledge of life in the raw would be the means of success in literature; therefore he discoursed of imaginary things and persons, lords and ladies, days of chivalry and what not — anything but out of his priceless first-hand lore.

    Preface 2010

  • This calculating, unyouthful outlook was repugnant to Mahony, and for all his goodwill, the longer he listened to Ned, the cooler he felt himself grow.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • I noticed how tired he looked, and how ... unyouthful.

    Fault Line Andrews, Sarah 2002

  • She gave a long sigh, pitifully unyouthful in its depth of misery.

    Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry

  • His deep-set, clear gray-blue eyes were the eyes of youth; but they would have set a keen observer to wondering what they had seen to leave that shadow of unyouthful gravity upon them.

    Wild Wings A Romance of Youth Margaret Rebecca Piper

  • Luck, youthful confidence, and her tragic, unyouthful beauty, had all ranged themselves together to procure her the much desired engagement.

    The Hippodrome Rachel Hayward

  • Yet the large dark eyes bore an expression of such hopelessness, such unyouthful gravity, that the whole face seemed gloomed over, as when a heavy cloud shuts out the brilliant sunshine of an August day.

    Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry

  • Those of her age, seeing that unyouthful gleam of her hair combined with the still-youthful dream of her eyes, felt as though they could not touch her; for no man can break another's web, he can only break his own, and these had torn their films to tatters long ago, and shouldered their way through the smudgy rents, and no more walked where she walked.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

  • As yet it had not sunk into his consciousness that his unyouthful knowledge of life in the raw would be the means of success in literature; therefore he discoursed of imaginary things and persons, lords and ladies, days of chivalry and what not

    Preface 1922

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