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unhungrily

unhungrily adverb: not hungrily; without hunger.

Adverb

unhungrily (not comparable)

  1. Not hungrily; without hunger.
    • His eyes unhungrily saw shelves of tins, sardines, gaudy lobsters' claws.1989 May, Dennis Brown, The Modernist Self in Twentieth-Century English Literature: A Study in Self-Fragmentation, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 84, →ISBN
    • And it's the only way of eating that will keep you unhungrily slim for the rest of your life.1981 December, Robert C. Atkins, Doctor Atkins' Diet Revolution, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 29, →ISBN

Examples of unhungrily in a sentence

  • Hazel sank wearily into her chair and sipped the milk unhungrily.2019 Descember, Grace Livingston Hill, Finding Love in Wild West: 3 Western Romance Novels, Musaicum Books:
  • “I should-?” I sigh and reach into my pocket, biting down a candy bar unhungrily and tossing the wrapper.2020 June, Jordan Wakefield, Waqas Ahmad, Conflux: The Lost Girls:

Origin of unhungrily

From un- + hungry + -ly.

Questions about unhungrily

What does unhungrily mean?
Unhungrily means not hungrily; without hunger.
How do you use unhungrily in a sentence?
Hazel sank wearily into her chair and sipped the milk unhungrily.
What part of speech is unhungrily?
Unhungrily is an adverb.

Words near unhungrily in the dictionary

  1. unhunched
  2. unhunches
  3. unhunching
  4. unhung
  5. unhungover
  6. unhungrily
  7. unhungry
  8. unhuntable
  9. unhunted
  10. unhurdled
  11. unhurled

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