unenjoying

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ enjoying.

Adjective

unenjoying (comparative more unenjoying, superlative most unenjoying)

  1. 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.