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Meanings of unadventurous in inglês

Lacking in boldness.

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Examples for "adventurous"
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To Advertiser: Am 26; late captain of Engineers; University graduate adventurous disposition.
The Case and the Girl
2
Lemuel is a very good shot, in case you have adventurous ideas.
Perdido Street Station
3
His career in Virginia was as adventurous as in the Old World.
A Brief History of the United States
4
Galligan's adventurous spirit appears to have been moulded at an early age.
The Irish Times
5
Possibly the career of a surgeon attracted the adventurous element in me.
The After House
Usage of unadventurous in inglês
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Meteorologists have always been unadventurous in their efforts to predict the future.
The Irish Times
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Worse, they've been house-trained by vested interests to be safe and unadventurous.
The Irish Times
3
Adventures are to the shy: in this sense adventures are to the unadventurous.
Heretics
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But it does, at the very least, make you seem a bit unadventurous.
The Irish Times
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For someone whose nails are almost never unpainted, I'm decidedly unadventurous.
The Guardian
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These are painterly little pictures, though the colour is rather unadventurous.
The Irish Times
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Emmy was less dark, more temperamentally unadventurous, stouter, and possessed of more colour.
Nocturne
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Universities are restricted more and more by unadventurous business models.
The Irish Times
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But I was always unadventurous, and in a way timid.
Escape, and Other Essays
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The unadventurous or hurried traveller sticks pretty closely to these.
The Long White Cloud: "Ao Tea Roa"
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At first the path was unadventurous enough, though distressingly rough.
Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan
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As for myself, my voyage home was short and unadventurous.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
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Sam claimed to be a very backward, cautious, unadventurous boy.
Mark Twain
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She tells me what's good, then shrugs when I order the unadventurous fish and chips.
Back on murder
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The flavor was a unique blend of spices that were new to my unadventurous palate.
In the shadow of gotham
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That was why he enjoyed the long bouts of solitude provided by the unadventurous interior.
The Reality Dysfunction
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