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Unadventurous   Listen
adjective
Unadventurous  adj.  See adventurous.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Unadventurous" Quotes from Famous Books



... unadventurous in pursuit. The necessity of moving his army along a parallel road south of the French, in order to avoid starvation, diminished the opportunities for attack; but the general himself disliked risking his forces, and preferred ...
— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe

... some light. I had but recently learned of Lucy's engagement to marry Doctor Woodthrop, of Davenham Minster, our nearest market-town. I had found Woodthrop a decent fellow enough, but thirty-four as against Lucy's twenty-one, inclining ominously to corpulence, and as flatly prosaic and unadventurous a spirit as a small country town could produce. Now, as Lucy seemed to me to have hankerings in the direction of social pleasures and the like, with a penchant for brilliancy and daring, I was a little puzzled about her engagement, for Woodthrop was one who kept a few conversational pleasantries ...
— The Message • Alec John Dawson



Words linked to "Unadventurous" :   timid, safe, cautious



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