unnews

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From un- +‎ news.

Noun[edit]

unnews (uncountable)

  1. (rare, nonstandard) News that is unnewsworthy.
    • 1990, Gerry Abbott, Back to Mandalay: An Inside View of Burma, page 72:
      [] brand of what Orwell might have called 'unnews'.
    • 2001, Aethlon, volume 19, page 151:
      [] six of the last ten World Series have gone the full seven games, and only the one-sided five-game victory of the Orioles over the Reds in 1970 ranked close to this year's affair as unnews.
    • 2012, Karl E. Meyer, ‎Shareen Blair Brysac, Pax Ethnica: Where and How Diversity Succeeds:
      In the tumultuous autumn of 2005, as riots and car burnings raged through France, the contrasting calm in Marseille attracted little media attention; it was un-news.

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