Untriumphalist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Untriumphalist is an adjective meaning Not triumphalist.
Meaning
Not triumphalist.
Example Sentences
"The Surgeon's Daughter" is an imperial text, though a curiously untriumphalist one.
To me, he looked not just very tired, but almost as if he was bereaved: as sombre and untriumphalist as in 2008, when he defeated Ken Livingstone.
At the end of the Falklands war two years earlier too, the Queen, whose second son, Andrew, had served as a helicopter pilot with the task force, was singularly untriumphalist and showed no inclination to follow her prime minister’s injunction to rejoice at victory.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include untriumphant, untriumphing, unvictorious, unhubristic, nonvictorious, untractarian.
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