unteasing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of untease

comparative more unteasing · superlative most unteasing

1. Not teasing; serious and direct.

   She gave him a glance so direct and unteasing that it amounted to the biggest tease of all.

   2014, Edward Stewart, For Richer, for Poorer: A Novel, →ISBN

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   There is nothing vampish about her, and parenthetically we may note that the European woman has, since the war, come to represent a new sexual ideal — unteasing directness.

   1990, Return to Cheyne Spa, →ISBN, page 275

   . I don't think I've seen you remain unsmiling or unteasing for more than two minutes since we met.

   2003, Donna Kauffman, The Cinderella Rules, →ISBN