Meanings
adjectiveunfairy (comparative more unfairy, superlative most unfairy)
comparative more unfairy · superlative most unfairy
- unfairylike
They are withered, old, and solitary, in every way unlike the sociable spirits of the first sections. They dress with all unfairy homeliness, and are, indeed, most sluttish, slouching, jeering, mischievous phantoms.
1888, W. B. Yeats, Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, London: Walter Scott, page 80
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