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uncelebration

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ celebration.

Noun

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uncelebration (plural uncelebrations)

  1. A memorial of something bad.
    • 1990, Robert Reginald Garnett, From Grimes to Brideshead: The Early Novels of Evelyn Waugh, →ISBN:
      Discussing Men at Arms, the first volume of his later war trilogy, Waugh explained that it "was a kind of uncelebration, a history of Guy Crouchback's disillusion with the army.
    • 1998, Michele Gillespie, Catherine Clinton, Taking Off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women Historians, →ISBN:
      In her essay, she took her cue from the conflicted uncelebrations surrounding the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus's contact with the Americas.
    • 2007, Dana Stabenow, A Deeper Sleep, →ISBN, page 152:
      He and Bobby Clark had a lot in common, and he was first on the guest list to Bobby's vets-only annual uncelebration of the Tet Offensive.
  2. A celebration that lacks any celebratory feeling or actions.
    • 1978, Cars & Parts - Volume 21, page 26:
      In contrast to all the whooppee that surrounded the Corvette's Silver Anniversary the observation of its 10th year of existence in 1962 had all the trappings of an uncelebration.
    • 1983, Hugh Fleetwood, A Dance to the Glory of God, page 78:
      And the idea of a celebration that celebrated only her, or a celebration that celebrated only celebration, struck her as being cold, narcissistic, and ultimately sterile; a joyless uncelebration in fact.
    • 2008, Gerald Vizenor, Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence, →ISBN, page 341:
      If the Osage or Wazhazhe reference scheme is celebratory, not to say mythic and historic, the follow-on Las Vegas reference scheme is all uncelebration.