Adjective : Business is in need of enterprising young people. ,an enterprising foreign policy. From Dictionary.com.
"And so unenterprising," I said, but I said it to myself. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London')] Reference
They play the most unenterprising boring rugby of any team in the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Right Result] Reference
We should have to encounter there only a weak, inactive, and unenterprising people. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
Being largely innumerate and unenterprising, the punditariat is unable or unwilling to apply simple reality checks to complex models. From Wordnik.com. [I'm Shocked,] Reference
If the conjectures of those who claimed acquaintance with the intent of Bannadonna be thus far correct, no unenterprising spirit could have been his. From Wordnik.com. [Imitações de Vida] Reference
Have they ever appeared otherwise than as the most self-centred and unenterprising people in the world, displaying the least possible aptitude for the career of arms?. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War] Reference
He suits my unenterprising disposition to perfection. From Wordnik.com. [Athalie] Reference
Was it selfish, dull, unenterprising to be so content?. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Isle] Reference
You make most of the men I know seem very unenterprising. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life] Reference
How cruel it is to be so poor, and to be with such unenterprising people!. From Wordnik.com. [A Crooked Path A Novel] Reference
Small nostrils are usually an indubitable sign of unenterprising timidity. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science] Reference
Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, are not listless or unenterprising men. From Wordnik.com. [A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861] Reference
They have many admirable qualities, but they are fearful and unenterprising. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty] Reference
Bannadonna be thus far correct, no unenterprising spirit could have been his. From Wordnik.com. [The Piazza Tales] Reference
He was as respectable, as neatly-dressed, as mechanical, and as unenterprising. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Upstairs and Other Stories] Reference
` But, Monsieur, that is very unenterprising, 'the man by the wayside submitted. From Wordnik.com. [The World Set Free] Reference
The lowly amoeba can perform these unenterprising functions more fitly than himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty] Reference
Maria was dull and unenterprising, yet somehow everything came round to her in the end. From Wordnik.com. [The Extra Day] Reference
Other listees have insured because office photographs, were silenced and unenterprising. From Wordnik.com. [We Heart Gossip: The hottest celebrity gossip news - hearted or hated by you!] Reference
… Either party in office becomes in time corrupt, tired, unenterprising, and vigorless. From Wordnik.com. [Crooks and Liars] Reference
The mines are worked at the present time, but only in a desultory and unenterprising manner. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference
The garrison within Bristol was small and unenterprising, and in point of fact the war was over. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Storm] Reference
Had he remained a bachelor, he would have been an unenterprising literary lawyer to the end of his days. From Wordnik.com. [A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays] Reference
The dinner itself was long, heavy, and unenterprising; a Victorian feast, even to the "specimen glass" decorations. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Basement Flat] Reference
But the French Marshal cleverly withdrew his corps, leaving only enough men to impose on that unenterprising leader. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)] Reference
He had, I found, a different kind of contempt for the lower classes, regarding them as thriftless and unenterprising. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Isle] Reference
She thought Ernestine was unenterprising and also underrated her ability, just because she had not been a working-woman. From Wordnik.com. [One Woman's Life] Reference
Business properly they had none; and their way of life seemed one of placid contentment and unenterprising domestic pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [A Red Wallflower] Reference
After the first examination of their prison, Berenger had had no thought of escape; he was then still weak and unenterprising. From Wordnik.com. [The Chaplet of Pearls] Reference
Mina was not speedily to be beaten, nor was the British general the slow unenterprising leader that the Emperor took him to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)] Reference
Oh, no! When rallied by his neighbours for such an unenterprising love of his own hearth, he merely shrugged his heavy shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of the Lamp] Reference
He was an unmarried man whose few relatives living in the far North of England were too poor and unenterprising to travel to London. From Wordnik.com. [Robin] Reference
The truth was that all the Garnets, and particularly her two sisters, were consumed by an habitual, bilious, unenterprising envy of Cressy. From Wordnik.com. [Youth and the Bright Medusa] Reference
Also, talk about unenterprising: I know for a fact that eBay was awash with the M&S dress in a variety of sizes for weeks leading up to conference. From Wordnik.com. [ninme] Reference
I entered it at a strong point on the extreme left and found three officers sitting on the fire-step with hunched shoulders and glum unenterprising faces. From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
The Orpheum had been in low water and had come into the market at a moment when theatrical managers and proprietors were singularly unenterprising and money was short. From Wordnik.com. [Jack O' Judgment] Reference
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