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English
Etymology
From un- + enjoying.
Adjective
unenjoying (comparative more unenjoying, superlative most unenjoying)
- Not gaining enjoyment.
1823, Henry Horne, The Citizen of Nature:She is one of our outcasts; a common prostitute, who obtains from the wages of promiscuous intercourse her daily bread; who sells for hire, in unenjoying prostitution, the feminine embraces given by Nature for mutual solace and endearment.
- 1871-2, George Eliot, Middlemarch
- The coachman was used to drive his grays at a good pace, Mr Casaubon being unenjoying and impatient in everything away from his desk, and wanting to get to the end of all journeys; and Dorothea was now bowled along quickly.