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unthespian

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ thespian.

Adjective

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unthespian (comparative more unthespian, superlative most unthespian)

  1. Not thespian.
    • 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:
      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, []