unfrank

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ frank

Adjective[edit]

unfrank (comparative more unfrank, superlative most unfrank)

  1. Not frank.
    • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities:
      That unknown, approaching thing, seemeth ever ill, my brother, which must have unfrank heralds to go before.
    • 1926, Beatrice Webb, My Apprenticeship, published 1979, page 72:
      Hitherto I have lived a great deal too much apart from my sisters, partly from indolence, and partly from my unfrank disposition.