unenterprising

Luckily the enemy were very unenterprising.

"Not so loud," Topper pleaded as he got out of the automobile and approached the unenterprising deity of the place.

In spite of its prosperity, the cork industry was the classic example of the unenterprising side of the Catalan artisanate.

Barnacles studded the surfaces, combing the water with their little nets, and sponges bulged wherever they chose: black unenterprising masses.

"Rather an unenterprising sort, I'd say. . . . But I'm just as pleased, until I know you a little better."

This effort was ill responded to by the unenterprising Swedish government in the political vacuum after the death of King Charles XII.

Michaux is best known for his stories about Plume - "a peaceful man" - perhaps the most unenterprising hero in the history of literature, and his many misfortunes.

For example, The Times newspaper wrote in 1866: "Wales... is a small country, unfavourably situated for commercial purposes, with an indifferent soil, and inhabited by an unenterprising people.

What would he look like now, he thought bitterly, if he'd been content to be some unenterprising nobody working in a minor rep, guaranteed a house of ten aficionados every night, and devoted to Brecht?

In fact, her target audience has always been the unenterprising middle- classes, in big private companies as much as in the public sector, looking for security in the form of a home, a pensionable job and a company car.

Clementine fearfully spun the protective web of catholicism, the family and middle-class values around her unenterprising existence, and provided little alternative for her son but to look to his father for inspiration and guidance.

Elmer was astounded that so capable a drinker, a man so deft at "handing a girl a swell spiel and getting her going" should find entertainment in Roman chariots and the unenterprising amours of sweet-peas.

With his upscale department store steadily losing money, Gabriel Service, Sr. (Lewis Stone) is forced to discharge some of his employees, including an unenterprising but loyal and long-serving Tim Benton (Lionel Barrymore).

Slim had always derided Sato as the most unenterprising of his opponents, and even recounted dissuading the RAF from bombing Sato's HQ because he wanted him kept alive, as doing so would help the Allied cause.

Jackie Kennedy ("Oh, I've been just crazy about her," Mrs. Clinton says tonight) seemed content to enliven the style pages; Lady Bird Johnson occupied herself with civic adornment, and the unenterprising Pat Nixon always seemed to be wishing she were somewhere else with someone else.