ppl. a. (UN-1 10.)
1697. Collier, Ess. Mor. Subj., II. (1703), 38. If he is silent and unentertaining to a visiter, the spleen is his excuse.
1748. Melmoth, Fitzosborne Lett., xlvii. (1749), II. 20. His conversation is unentertaining: for … all that he utters is delivered with labour and hesitation.
1796. Hist. Ned Evans, II. 118. The ceremony of adoption being somewhat singular it may not be unentertaining to relate it.
1837. Syd. Smith, 2nd Lett. to Singleton, ¶ 21. The idea of abandoning this taxation … is not unentertaining.
Hence Unentertainingly adv., -ness.
1740. Gray, Lett. to West, 25 Sept. Last post I received a very diminutive letter. It made excuses for its unentertainingness.
1847. Webster, Unentertainingly.
1886. Ruskin, Præterita, I. v. 146. A conceited and unentertainingly troublesome little monkey.
