Uncongratulating

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not offering congratulations. not-comparable

    "By the obscurity of a twinkling lamp, and amidst a handful of despised outcasts, already marked out and consigned to death, and in the uncongratulating silence of the midnight hour, the mighty step was accomplished."

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"By the obscurity of a twinkling lamp, and amidst a handful of despised outcasts, already marked out and consigned to death, and in the uncongratulating silence of the midnight hour, the mighty step was accomplished."

Etymology

From un- + congratulating.

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