unarresting

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Verb

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unarresting

  1. present participle and gerund of unarrest

Adjective

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unarresting (comparative more unarresting, superlative most unarresting)

  1. Not arresting; that does not hold the attention.
    • 1859, James Hamilton, Christian Classics:
      [] a meagre and monotonous evangelism — shunning to declare the whole counsel of God, or reiterating a few favourite phrases till they grow as trite and unarresting as a cuckoo-song — has provoked that fatal falsehood []