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1769.  Burke, Observ. State of Nation, ¶ 4. Uninteresting barren truths which generate no conclusion.

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1782.  Miss Burney, Cecilia, VII. ix. Too much occupied … to … listen to such uninteresting discourse.

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1840.  Hood, Up Rhine, 43. The banks of the Lower Rhine are of a very uninteresting character.

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1869.  Tozer, Highl. Turkey, II. 176. Writers, whose pages are … extremely uninteresting.

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  Hence Uninterestingness. Also Uninterestingly adv.

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1793.  W. Roberts, Looker-on, No. 82. My days pass serenely, but *uninterestingly.

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1896.  Black, Briseis, xvii, I’m sick of blue skies—skies that are monotonously and uninterestingly blue.

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1794.  European Mag., XXVI. 344. The *uninterestingness of genealogical detail.

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1854.  Faber, Growth in Holiless, viii. (1872), 129. The momentary dulness and uninterestingness of the things of God.

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