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unangry en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + angry.

Meanings

1. Not angry.
   • Thro’ peaceful Orbits these unangry glide. 1718, Nicholas Rowe (translator), Lucan’s Pharsalia Translated into English Verse, London: T. Johnson, 1720, Book I, p. 47, Or did thy glowing beams O Phœbus, shine Malignant in the Lion’s scorching Sign, Wide o’er the World consuming fires might roll, And Heav’n be seen to flame from pole to pole
   • His eyes had become unangry and wary. 1930, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 7, in The Maltese Falcon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 84:
   • “I think it’s anger, Jana.” (Cooper says this in such an exquisitely unangry way.) “Anger at you.” 2003, Cai Emmons, chapter 26, in His Mother’s Son, New York: Harcourt, page 291:
   • She would have given anything to lighten her mind of its burdens and to be able to think of her husband without suspicion. Just a word from him would do, just an unangry word; even a lie, a soothing lie. 1938, R. K. Narayan, chapter 6, in The Dark Room:

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Deriveds

unangrily