Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not delighted; not well pleased.
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- adjective Not
delighted .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Without compatibility, husband and wife are left to "grind in the mill of an undelighted and servile copulation."
Heroic Milton: Happy Birthday Kermode, Frank 2009
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When, in Paradise Lost, Satan spied on Adam and Eve, unfallen and making love in Eden, he "saw undelighted all delight."
Heroic Milton: Happy Birthday Kermode, Frank 2009
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Mr. Smerdon was much pleased with this (I was not undelighted with it myself) and as I was now become fond of the author, he easily persuaded me to proceed with him, and I translated in succession the third, the fourth, the twelfth, and I think the eighth Satires.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810
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When I put this to McAvoy, he rocks back in his chair, puffs out his cheek and blows a long, incredulous, but not entirely undelighted sounding raspberry.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Presently she gets up, and throwing her arms round him, seemed far from undelighted with the trial he had put her to, to judge at least by the fondness with which she ey'd and hung upon him.
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Presently she gets up, and throwing her arms round him, seemed far from undelighted with the trial he had put her to, to judge at least by the fondness with which she eyed, and hung upon him.
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Presently she gets up, and throwing her arms round him, seemed far undelighted with the trial he had put her to, to judge, at least by the fondness with which she eyed, and hung upon him.
Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) John Cleland 1749
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Un is prefixed to all participles made privative adjectives, as unfeeling, unassisting, unaided, undelighted, unendeared.
A Grammar of the English Tongue Samuel Johnson 1746
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That’s not quite fair; I was only mostly undelighted.
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That’s not quite fair; I was only mostly undelighted.
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