desirous
adjective
undesirous
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a word derived from
desirous.
Example Sentences
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You must also consider that feeling undesirous of your partner can be due to relationship factors, such as having underlying anger about a perceived power imbalance or sense of unfairness.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 13, 2019
Exile of immortality, strongly wise, Strain through the dark with undesirous eyes To what may lie beyond it.
From The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke by Rupert Brooke
It was pleasant, somehow, the next morning, to loll about with trailing wings, undesirous of flight.
From The Trimming of Goosie by James Hopper
Very simple and gentle, with a sweet voice; undesirous of shining or poser-ing, so it seems to me.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
It was under his name that these compositions appeared, Madam Dudevant, in these first trial-attempts, being undesirous to bring hers before the public.
From Famous Women: George Sand by Bertha Thomas
