1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., II. xii. (1872), I. 119. Unadmiring posterity has confirmed the nickname.
1881. Times, 20 Aug., 9/2. Before an impatient and unadmiring audience.
b. Used with ppl. construction.
1876. Miss Broughton, Joan, xxi. Joan looks away again, utterly unadmiring herself.
Hence Unadmiringly adv.
1862. ‘Shirley’ (J. Skelton), Nugæ Crit., iii. 150. One, whose massive brow and chiselled eyelids you … have noted not unadmiringly.
