unenjoyed
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a word derived from
enjoy.
enjoyverb (used with object)to experience with joy; take pleasure in.
Example Sentences
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With the same sorrow over fruitless, unenjoyed plantings of labor, he often shut his eyes upon wall-paper foliage, upon worked flowers, upon architectural decorations.
From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
Others, full of youth, talent, and vigor, were usurping the positions and enjoying the honors of life, which were slipping away from him unenjoyed.
From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by William Henry Sparks
And yet there are flowers enough! and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen, to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?
From The Sorrows of Young Werther by R. Dillon Boylan
It might be that for some years to come the property might be unenjoyed; the rich fruit might fall rotten from the wall; but what would that avail to her or to her child?
From Castle Richmond by Anthony Trollope
A thousand gay and pleasant hours are wasted in ill-humor; we let them slip by unenjoyed, and sigh for them in vain when the sky is overcast.
From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey) Saunders