Example Sentences

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Donald Spoto might seem up to the task, based on his shrewd if unadmiring assessment of Alfred Hitchcock in The Dark Side of Genius.

From Time Magazine Archive

"What in blue blazes are you talking about?" thundered McPherson, glowering down on his rector's wife in a most unadmiring manner.

From The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play by Rae, John

In the midst of this walked man—the lord of all—humbly, silently, with bowed head and unadmiring eyes—man whose life was vouchsafed for the enjoyment of all these things.

From The Slave of the Lamp by Merriman, Henry Seton

It was a very pretty place in summer, not unpicturesque even at this bleak season; but Clarissa was thinking of lost Arden, and she looked at Mill Cottage with mournful unadmiring eyes.

From The Lovels of Arden by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

He stared at me—a pleasant, sympathetic, and not unadmiring stare—peering nearsightedly through the twilight.

From Everyman's Land by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)