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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English ingratiating English uningratiating From un- + ingratiating.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not ingratiating; making no effort to be appealing
It's too bad his interesting arguments and observations are wedged into such an uningratiating book.
2009 January 7, Dwight Garner, “When Labels Fought the Digital, and the Digital Won”, in New York Times: