a. (UN-1 7.)
c. 1480. Henryson, Fables, Prol., 23. Ane Bow that is ay bent Worthis vnsmart and dullis on the string.
a. 1817. Jane Austen, Watsons (1879), 330. The convenient though very un-smart family equipage.
1861. G. F. Berkeley, Eng. Sportsman, i. 13. To tell an American that you guess hes pitching it in considerable smart, and departing from unsmart fact, is no insult whatever.
Hence Unsmartness.
1802. Miss Berry, Jrnl. (1865), II. 147. A general unsmartness of appearance pervaded them all.