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Answer for the clue "Not loving or amorous ", 10 letters:
unromantic

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Word definitions for unromantic in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. neither expressive of nor exciting sexual love or romance

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Not romantic

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1731, from un- (1) "not" + romantic (adj.).

Usage examples of unromantic.

This very point was brought up recently in conversation with an artist, who in referring to one of the most successful costume balls ever given in New York--the crinoline ball at the old Astor House--spoke of how our unromantic Wall Street men fell to the spell of stocks, ruffled shirts and knickerbockers, and as the evening advanced, were quite themselves in the minuette and polka, bowing low in solemn rigidity, leading their lady with high arched arm, grasping her pinched-in waist, and swinging her beruffled, crinolined form in quite the 1860 manner.

There were many reasons why Larry was appealed to by the idea of making his home for the present in this old house in this dingy, unexciting, unromantic street.

It is not therefore unlikely that if the lakes of Wales are explored they will yield evidences of lake-dwellers, and, however unromantic it may appear, the Lady of the Van Lake was only possibly a maiden snatched from her watery home by a member of a stronger race.