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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Throughout the day, the mood in the office was bright, pragmatic, and unhurried.
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Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
The new songs are thick but plush, intimidating but inviting, blustering but unhurried.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2024
Backpackers found the country decades ago, drawn by staggeringly beautiful limestone mountains, elaborate Buddhist temples and an unhurried and inexpensive pace of life.
—Christine Chung, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
Lipton Bot is unhurried and as soothing as chamomile, with a hint of basset hound around the eyebrows and an attentive tenderness that, impressively, never slips cheaply toward the sinister.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2024
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Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
The new songs are thick but plush, intimidating but inviting, blustering but unhurried.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2024
Backpackers found the country decades ago, drawn by staggeringly beautiful limestone mountains, elaborate Buddhist temples and an unhurried and inexpensive pace of life.
—Christine Chung, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
Lipton Bot is unhurried and as soothing as chamomile, with a hint of basset hound around the eyebrows and an attentive tenderness that, impressively, never slips cheaply toward the sinister.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2024
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“Unhurried.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unhurried. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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