unenduring

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She saw now his success as unenduring, fictitious, his talents besmirched with the vice that was most hateful to her.

From The Long Lane's Turning by Rives, Hallie Erminie

There are many ways of exciting phosphorescence and fluorescence, the latter being merely an unenduring phosphorescence, which ceases when the exciting energy is cut off.

From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Luckiesh, Matthew

Stone houses should be made of stone, and if made of wood or iron or plaster, they are nothing but shams, unenduring and unsatisfactory.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various

Impulsiveness.—This trait is closely allied with the last: unenduring emotions are emotions which sway the conduct now this way and now that, without any consistency.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert

The long delay, coupled with fears lest that the Peace Treaty, when it does come, should prove to be a peace unworthy, unsatisfactory, unenduring, has made the hearts of the people sick.

From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph