festive
adjective
pertaining to or suitable for a feast or festival.
unfestive
-
a word derived from
festive.
Example Sentences
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After that game, then–Thunder star Kevin Durant commented on the overwhelmingly unfestive atmosphere in Madison Square Garden.
From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2019
Best play Stephen Karam’s The Humans, a haunting story of an Irish-American family gathering for an unfestive Thanksgiving dinner is rich in compassion, humor and stuffing.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2016
On a sunny, wind-swept December morning, Virgin America kicked off a day of festivities along the otherwise unfestive runways of Dallas Fort Worth Airport.
From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 29, 2010
Things become even more oddly unfestive when we see shuffling lines of people forced to throw their children’s toys into huge piles on the street, an image clearly meant to evoke the Holocaust.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2010
And so, when she asked Charlotte about her toilette for the great occasion, it was with a heart of unfestive heaviness.
From The Torch Bearer by Reina Melcher Marquis
