unspontaneous
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The story describes the contradiction of the philosopher’s “paean to spontaneity and her own nature, the least spontaneous, most doggedly, nervously, even fanatically unspontaneous I know.”
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 18, 2016
Then there are the unspontaneous and nervous speeches.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2010
Even Diana Vishneva — an only occasional visitor to Ballet Theater from the Kirov, physically gorgeous, stylistically refined, at her best astonishingly varied — can just deliver unspontaneous baby-doll performances of some roles.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2010
Stores of fodder blazed up in unspontaneous combustion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then Pallas struck The suitors with delirium; wide they stretch’d Their jaws with unspontaneous laughter loud; Their meat dripp’d blood; tears fill’d their eyes, and dire Presages of approaching woe, their hearts.
From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William
