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unsensationalist

unsensationalist adjective: not sensationalist.

Adjective

unsensationalist (comparative more unsensationalist, superlative most unsensationalist)

  1. Not sensationalist.
    • The implications are both celebratory and valedictory, which makes sense for work that looks back on suppressed histories but also brings those histories, and the reality of their suppression, forward in a stylish and unsensationalist art of the present. Ms. Winterling will screen another film...2007 August 17, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times

Forms of unsensationalist

comparativemore unsensationalist
superlativemost unsensationalist

Origin of unsensationalist

From un- + sensationalist.

Questions about unsensationalist

What does unsensationalist mean?
Unsensationalist means not sensationalist.
What part of speech is unsensationalist?
Unsensationalist is an adjective.

Words near unsensationalist in the dictionary

  1. unsending
  2. unsends
  3. unsenescent
  4. unsensational
  5. unsensationalised
  6. unsensationalist
  7. unsensationalized
  8. unsense
  9. unsensed
  10. unsenses
  11. unsensibility

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