untriumphalist
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]untriumphalist (not comparable)
- Not triumphalist.
- 2012 March 29, Andrew Gimson, Boris: The Adventures of Boris Johnson, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
- To me, he looked not just very tired, but almost as if he was bereaved: as sombre and untriumphalist as in 2008, when he defeated Ken Livingstone.
- 2021 December 28, Configuring Romanticism: Essays offered to C. C. Barfoot, BRILL, →ISBN, page 48:
- "The Surgeon's Daughter" is an imperial text, though a curiously untriumphalist one.
- September 8 2022, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian[1]:
- At the end of the Falklands war two years earlier too, the Queen, whose second son, Andrew, had served as a helicopter pilot with the task force, was singularly untriumphalist and showed no inclination to follow her prime minister’s injunction to rejoice at victory.