unstarry
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Allen said of Kay: "He's the most unstarry person I know... he's an absolute dream."
From BBC ● May 21, 2018
But for Nicola Shindler, who was executive producer of the forthcoming BBC1 thriller Trust Me, in which Whittaker takes on the challenging central role, she is also refreshingly unstarry.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2017
Small and unstarry with a cast of four, “Saint Joan” could easily have gone unnoticed.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2016
He is our most unstarry star, no longer needing to hunt for our good will.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 12, 2015
In his account of his day-to-day life in Moscow, he gives the U.S. people a hard look through shrewd, unstarry Hoosier eyes at Joseph Stalin and the men in the Politburo.
From Time Magazine Archive
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