unhungrily

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ hungry +‎ -ly.

Adverb

unhungrily (not comparable)

  1. Not hungrily; without hunger.
    • 1989 May, Dennis Brown, The Modernist Self in Twentieth-Century English Literature: A Study in Self-Fragmentation, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 84, →ISBN:
      His eyes unhungrily saw shelves of tins, sardines, gaudy lobsters' claws.
    • 1981 December, Robert C. Atkins, Doctor Atkins' Diet Revolution, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 29, →ISBN:
      And it's the only way of eating that will keep you unhungrily slim for the rest of your life.
    • 2019 Descember, Grace Livingston Hill, Finding Love in Wild West: 3 Western Romance Novels, Musaicum Books:
      Hazel sank wearily into her chair and sipped the milk unhungrily.
    • 2020 June, Jordan Wakefield, Waqas Ahmad, Conflux: The Lost Girls:
      “I should-?” I sigh and reach into my pocket, biting down a candy bar unhungrily and tossing the wrapper.
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