Decrepit, colorless uneager things. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
How could she say it, and yet seem uneager, indifferent?. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of To-Day] Reference
He seemed solid, intelligent, capable, and uneager for personal power. From Wordnik.com. [Battlestar Galactica] Reference
People know me as a calm, placid man, slow to anger, uneager for confrontation, but this ... this was the final straw. From Wordnik.com. [The Keg of Knob Creek : Bev Vincent] Reference
The cost to Greece of default is relatively trivial compared to the cost to its creditors, mostly European banks uneager to take large write-downs. From Wordnik.com. [Everything's Fine With Greece, Just Ignore Some Facts] Reference
But it is mostly with respect to Obama's evident reluctance to confront boldly the right-wing Bushites over the terrorism policies that I'd like to raise the question: how powerful are those Bushite forces against which Obama seems so uneager to go to war?. From Wordnik.com. [Questioning Obama's Strategy Against Evil: Correlation of Forces] Reference
How often have we refused to go out into the world and do something that leaves a worthwhile memory in its place because we were afraid, or because we were tired or discomfited or otherwise uneager to leave the safety and peace and comfort of our houses, couches, and DVD players?. From Wordnik.com. [This Weeks DVD Releases] Reference
Other Republicans seemed aggressively uneager to discuss the matter. From Wordnik.com. [legitgov] Reference
I found myself somewhat shocked, and uneager to proceed until some penance was negotiated. From Wordnik.com. [The ADD Blog at Comic Book Galaxy] Reference
Katharine raised her eyes with I know not what lingering hope; it was he, a young Zeus now, triumphant and uneager. From Wordnik.com. [Chivalry] Reference
Katharine raised her eyes with I know not what lingering hope; but it was he, a young Zeus now, triumphant and uneager. From Wordnik.com. [Chivalry] Reference
Cupid's messenger, wearing grease-grimed overalls and the fatuous grin of the dalliant male, would transmit his communication to the uneager. From Wordnik.com. [Gigolo] Reference
The Palestinian Authority is so uneager for a peace agreement that anything said by Israel on the subject is most unlikely ever to be implemented. From Wordnik.com. [Israpundit] Reference
And he turned to the fire, the set of his shoulders confessing what his lips would not -- that though he loved Ellen, though he wanted Ellen, there was something imperfect in the condition of his love which made him leaden and uneager. From Wordnik.com. [The Judge] Reference
He had the Horatian temperament, uneager to anticipate the future, content if the present were fairly comfortable, sighing for no palatial halls over-arched with gold and ivory, no porphyry columns, or marble terraces encroaching upon the sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Calf] Reference
Aristotle would have had no government ruling more than ten thousand people; Laotse would have had his State of such a size that the inhabitants could all hear the cocks crowing in foreign lands; and he would have had them quite uneager to travel abroad. From Wordnik.com. [The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19] Reference
The first thing he read was three stanzas on the left-hand page where the book opened to his uneager hands, and his eyes, expectant of disappointment, -- for up to that time, never having read any, he hated poetry, -- fell on one of the five or six perfect poems in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Aladdin O'Brien] Reference
The road to Mr.. Vance's lay through one of the most amiable suburbs of Millbrook, and Mr. Carstyle, walking with his slow uneager step, his hat pushed back, and his stick dragging behind him, seemed to take a philosophic pleasure in the aspect of the trim lawns and opulent gardens. From Wordnik.com. [The Greater Inclination] Reference
He worked at The Romany Rye, not because he saw profit in it, not because he was anxious to give another book to an uneager public; but because of the sting in its tail, because of the thunderbolt Appendix in which he paid off old scores against the critics and his personal enemies. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of George Borrow]
Stephen laid the coin in her uneager hand. —. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
But his uneager dignity soon chilled. From Wordnik.com. [Men, Women and Ghosts] Reference
Like a young Jove with calm uneager face. From Wordnik.com. [Keats: Poems Published in 1820] Reference
Stephen laid the coin in her uneager hand. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
My thoughts are grown uneager and depressed. From Wordnik.com. [A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass] Reference
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