unindustrious

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English

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Etymology

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un- +‎ industrious

Adjective

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unindustrious (comparative more unindustrious, superlative most unindustrious)

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