unenterprising
- a word derived from enterprising.
Example Sentences
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His team, 476 minutes without a goal in open play, currently looks as unenterprising as under Unai Emery’s unpopular regime.
From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2020
"Safe & Sane may also mean commonplace, unenterprising," said New York's Joseph Jastrow, speaking again.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It has no hero, and its principal character is an intellectual pygmy who is as real as mud and just as unenterprising.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Moreover, though they will not say so out loud, some foreign bank officers consider American bankers an unenterprising lot who can be outdone in customer service on their home grounds.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She thought Ernestine was unenterprising and also underrated her ability, just because she had not been a working-woman.
From One Woman's Life by Herrick, Robert