unangry
English
Adjective
unangry (comparative more unangry, superlative most unangry)
- Not angry.
- 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:
- Thro’ peaceful Orbits these unangry glide.
- 1930, Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Chapter 7, p. 84,
- His eyes had become unangry and wary.
- 1938, R. K. Narayan, The Dark Room, Chapter 6,
- 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.
- 2003, Cai Emmons, His Mother’s Son, New York: Harcourt, Chapter 26, p. 291,
- “I think it’s anger, Jana.” (Cooper says this in such an exquisitely unangry way.) “Anger at you.”
- 1718, Nicholas Rowe (translator), Lucan’s Pharsalia Translated into English Verse, London: T. Johnson, 1720, Book I, p. 47,
Derived terms
- unangrily
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