unenjoying

English[edit]

unenjoying (comparative more unenjoying, superlative most unenjoying)

Not gaining enjoyment.
- 1823, Henry Horne, The Citizen of Nature:
  She is one of our outcasts; a common prostitute, who obtains from the wages of promiscuous intercourse her daily bread; who sells for hire, in unenjoying prostitution, the feminine embraces given by Nature for mutual solace and endearment.
- 1871-2, George Eliot, Middlemarch
  The coachman was used to drive his grays at a good pace, Mr Casaubon being unenjoying and impatient in everything away from his desk, and wanting to get to the end of all journeys; and Dorothea was now bowled along quickly.