nonadoring

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ adoring.

Adjective

nonadoring (comparative more nonadoring, superlative most nonadoring)

1. Not adoring; unadoring.
   • 2003, Robert L. Moore, Max J. Havlick, Facing the Dragon, page 146:

     The more sensitive and easily hurt we are to nonadoring responses, the more it signals a possession state by this grandiose organization.

   • 2003, Bric Blastard Had It All, page 36:

     Rather than sit and gawk at my nonadoring mother and sister, I gallivanted outdoors until it was time to hit the sack.

   • 2010, Paul J. Griffiths, Lying: An Augustinian Theology of Duplicity, page 90:

     All nonconfessing, nonadoring speech is sinful because it does not return itself to its giver.