as in leisurely
moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speed
we cycled at an unhurried pace and saved our strength for the hills up ahead
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Recent Examples of unhurried
Freud held famously unhurried sessions, often requiring sitters to spend unbroken hours in the studio over the course of days or even months.
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Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
10 June 2026
The Midwestern supper club ritual hasn’t changed, bringing guests together for long, unhurried evenings of dining and entertaining.
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Arati Menon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 June 2026
And Hinton — in his characteristically unhurried, occasionally hilarious way — gave answers that were by turns technically precise and cosmically vertiginous.
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
1 June 2026
Best known for the unhurried cadence of his stand-up comedy, Bargatze proves almost stunningly limited as a traditional screen actor.
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Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
27 May 2026
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Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
10 June 2026
The Midwestern supper club ritual hasn’t changed, bringing guests together for long, unhurried evenings of dining and entertaining.
—
Arati Menon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 June 2026
And Hinton — in his characteristically unhurried, occasionally hilarious way — gave answers that were by turns technically precise and cosmically vertiginous.
—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
1 June 2026
Best known for the unhurried cadence of his stand-up comedy, Bargatze proves almost stunningly limited as a traditional screen actor.
—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
27 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for unhurried
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unhurried
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That was when the lensman captured the social set at their leisurely and often strikingly dressed best.
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Perhaps the biggest problem with this movie is that Supergirl (Helen Slater) seems terribly leisurely about her fateful mission.
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What to expect over the weekend Though Friday was expected to be the slowest day of the competition, the atmosphere at Cal Expo was anything but dull.
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Some residents are calling for civilian volunteers to help clear debris, frustrated by the slow pace of the rescue operations.
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“Unhurried.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unhurried. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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