unteasing
English
Verb
unteasing
- present participle of untease
Adjective
unteasing (comparative more unteasing, superlative most unteasing)
- 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.
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Anagrams
- Saguntine, angustine, unseating