unangry

comparative more unangry · superlative most unangry

1. Not angry.

   His eyes had become unangry and wary.

   1930, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 7, in The Maltese Falcon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 84

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   Thro’ peaceful Orbits these unangry glide.

   1718, Nicholas Rowe (translator), Lucan’s Pharsalia Translated into English Verse, London: T. Johnson, 1720, Book I, p. 47, Or did thy glowing beams O Phœbus, shine Malignant in the Lion’s scorching Sign, Wide o’er the World consuming fires might roll, And Heav’n be seen to flame from pole to pole

   She would have given anything to lighten her mind of its burdens and to be able to think of her husband without suspicion. Just a word from him would do, just an unangry word; even a lie, a soothing lie.

   1938, R. K. Narayan, chapter 6, in The Dark Room

   “I think it’s anger, Jana.” (Cooper says this in such an exquisitely unangry way.) “Anger at you.”

   2003, Cai Emmons, chapter 26, in His Mother’s Son, New York: Harcourt, page 291