1599. Daniel, Musoph., Wks. (1602), C iii b. So farre beyond the ordinarie course, That other vnindustrious Ages ran.
1612. Donne, Lett. (1651), 122. I have [not] been … unindustrious in attempting that [i.e., to do good].
1667. Decay of Chr. Piety, xiii. ¶ 1. We cannot think it so sluggish or unindustrious an agent.
1693. W. Freke, Sel. Ess., xxxiv. 216. It were … an unindustrious encroaching on the publick property to attain it.
1883. Century Mag., XXVI. 805. Hardly an industry, perhaps, or at any rate an unindustrious one.
1887. Rider Haggard, Jess, xxi. That intelligent but unindustrious race.
So Unindustriously adv.
1648. Boyle, Seraph. Love, xvii. (1659), 115. Ev’n the Socinians … are not a little, or un-industriously sollicitous.
