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1749.  Chesterf., Lett. (1774), I. 429. Without them, your learning will be pedantry,… and your figure … awkward and unengaging.

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1768–74.  Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 592. The one [life] is pleasant, easy, smooth, and dispatchful: the other unengaging, toilsome, stiff.

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1893.  Kath. Simpson, Yorks. Stories, 92. Jael had not been favoured with the gift of beauty, and some of her girl friends, who were better looking than herself, had for years taunted her with being too ugly and unengaging to be able to boast of a lover.

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