unbuying
English
Etymology
un- + buying
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Adjective
unbuying (not comparable)
- Not making purchases.
- 1885, Alexander Johnston, The Anti-Slavery Struggle (page 228)
- Consider that one third of the whole are the miserably poor, unbuying blacks.
- 1975, John Greenleaf Whittier, John B. Pickard, The Letters (page 136)
- […] to be cheap, cheap, cheap, so as to open a market far away among the unbuying crowd hidden away in the dust holes of our country.
- 1885, Alexander Johnston, The Anti-Slavery Struggle (page 228)