unteasing

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

unteasing

  1. present participle and gerund of untease

Adjective[edit]

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.

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