solicitous
adjective
anxious or concerned (usually followed by about, for, etc., or a clause).
unsolicitous
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a word derived from
solicitous.
Example Sentences
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Late Night was unsolicitous of the viewer, just as Letterman was often unsolicitous of his guests.
From Slate ● May 10, 2015
Mr Elliot had attempted no apology, and shewn himself as unsolicitous of being longer noticed by the family, as Sir Walter considered him unworthy of it: all acquaintance between them had ceased.
From Persuasion by Jane Austen
Who knows not that the unsolicitous mariner is far more likely to suffer shipwreck than he who, apprehensive of rocks and reefs, exercises a wise precaution?
From Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 by Mrs. A. G. Whittelsey
Like most supernatural virtues, it has a laic shadow; the counsel to abstain, and to be unsolicitous, is one not only of perfection, but also of polity.
From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres
Its common aspect is one of unsolicitous observation, as if surveying a full field and having leisure to dart on its chosen morsels, without any fluttering eagerness.
From An Essay on comedy and the uses of the comic spirit by George Meredith
