unteasing

unteasing

1. present participle of untease

unteasing (comparative more unteasing, superlative most unteasing)

1. Not teasing; serious and direct.
   • 1990, Return to Cheyne Spa, →ISBN, page 275:

     There is nothing vampish about her, and parenthetically we may note that the European woman has, since the war, come to represent a new sexual ideal — unteasing directness.

   • 2003, Donna Kauffman, The Cinderella Rules, →ISBN:

     . I don't think I've seen you remain unsmiling or unteasing for more than two minutes since we met.

   • 2014, Edward Stewart, For Richer, for Poorer: A Novel, →ISBN:

     She gave him a glance so direct and unteasing that it amounted to the biggest tease of all.

• Saguntine, angustine, unseating