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unindustrious en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + industrious.

Meanings

  1. Not industrious.
    • Like a lot of young journalism school graduates then and now, I had come to see political journalism as a lesser form of the craft, populated mostly by the effete and the unindustrious, while the real reporters were out there braving crack corners and foreign wars. 2007 November 11, Matt Bai, “See How They Ran”, in New York Times:

Forms

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more unindustrious Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most unindustrious Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

unindustriousness · unindustriously