Definitions

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  • adjective Not nourishing.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ nourishing

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Examples

  • It used to be that professors proudly wrote about topics so minuscule that not even their fellow scholars could work up an appetite for the unnourishing results.

    An Exquisite Slogger 2005

  • It used to be that professors proudly wrote about topics so minuscule that not even their fellow scholars could work up an appetite for the unnourishing results.

    An Exquisite Slogger 2005

  • Trying to fill in the hole with something unnourishing that I don't even like?

    nightmare Holly 2004

  • Trying to fill in the hole with something unnourishing that I don't even like?

    Archive 2004-04-01 Holly 2004

  • Like the person who gets fat because they eat unnourishing foods and so is always hungry and so is always eating, she drowned in words that could not teach her to swim.

    The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

  • Like the person who gets fat because they eat unnourishing foods and so is always hungry and so is always eating, she drowned in words that could not teach her to swim.

    The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

  • Like the person who gets fat because they eat unnourishing foods and so is always hungry and so is always eating, she drowned in words that could not teach her to swim.

    The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

  • But it is a fact that he did not perform his duty and 1,500 men were fed spoiled and unnourishing food as a result.

    In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France Edward Alva Trueblood

  • "I suppose they will when they get ready," she answers briefly and returns to her chicken-croquette with the thought that in its sleekness, genteelness, crumblingness, and generally unnourishing qualities it is really rather like Mrs. Winters.

    Young People's Pride Stephen Vincent Ben��t 1920

  • This, however, it was easy for him to assuage, after a fashion, for the long, gray, unnourishing mosses were abundant.

    Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

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