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unthespian

unthespian adjective: not thespian.

Adjective

unthespian (comparative more unthespian, superlative most unthespian)

  1. Not thespian.
    • Watching Dune again on video you can see that some of its defects are clearly Lynch's responsibility, e.g. casting the nerdy and potato-faced Kyle MacLachlan as an epic hero, and the Police's resoundingly unthespian Sting as a psycho villain, […]1997, David Foster Wallace, “David Lynch keeps his head”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group

Forms of unthespian

comparativemore unthespian
superlativemost unthespian

Origin of unthespian

From un- + thespian.

Questions about unthespian

What does unthespian mean?
Unthespian means not thespian.
What part of speech is unthespian?
Unthespian is an adjective.

Words near unthespian in the dictionary

  1. untherapeutical
  2. untherapeutically
  3. untherapized
  4. unthermalized
  5. unthermostatted
  6. unthespian
  7. unthicken
  8. unthickened
  9. unthickening
  10. unthickens
  11. unthing

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