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Webster 1828 Edition


Unindustrious

UNINDUS'TRIOUS

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Adj.
Not industrious; not diligent in labor, study or other pursuit.

Definition 2024


unindustrious

unindustrious

English

Adjective

unindustrious (comparative more unindustrious, superlative most unindustrious)

  1. Not industrious.
    • 2007 November 11, Matt Bai, “See How They Ran”, in New York Times:
      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.