unteasing

Not teasing; serious and direct.

Adjective

  1. Not teasing; serious and direct.
    • There is nothing vampish about her, and parenthetically we may note that the European woman has, since the war, come to represent a new sexual ideal — unteasing directness. - 1990, Return to Cheyne Spa, →ISBN, page 275:
    • . I don't think I've seen you remain unsmiling or unteasing for more than two minutes since we met. - 2003, Donna Kauffman, The Cinderella Rules, →ISBN:
    • She gave him a glance so direct and unteasing that it amounted to the biggest tease of all. - 2014, Edward Stewart, For Richer, for Poorer: A Novel, →ISBN:

Forms

more unteasing most unteasing

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of untease