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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

"Good-by," says Desmond, with alacrity, who is, in truth, sulky, and undesirous of further parley with his beloved.

From Rossmoyne by Unknown

So she went on her way in wonder, longing to be once more safely housed with Monna Lisa, undesirous of carnivals for evermore.

From Romola by Eliot, George

It was pleasant, somehow, the next morning, to loll about with trailing wings, undesirous of flight.

From The Trimming of Goosie by Hopper, James

She would be his good genius, walking before him and holding up her hands against every evil temptation, until he had become as pure, as undesirous as herself.

From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann