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NOT SURPRISED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not surprised or expressing surprise
Example:
that unsuprised obstinate look on his face
Synonyms:
not surprised; unsurprised
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Context examples:
Buck saw money pass between them, and was not surprised when Curly, a good-natured Newfoundland, and he were led away by the little weazened man.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
On the inspector of constabulary informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I had effected some cures among them upon my way up the river, and had impressed them considerably with my personality, so that I was not surprised to find myself eagerly awaited upon my return.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was not surprised.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was interested as to which quatrain he would like best, and was not surprised when he hit upon the one born of an instant’s irritability, and quite at variance with the Persian’s complacent philosophy and genial code of life:
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I was not surprised, when I ran down into the hall, to see that a brilliant June morning had succeeded to the tempest of the night; and to feel, through the open glass door, the breathing of a fresh and fragrant breeze.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I was not surprised when Holmes suggested that I should take my revolver with me.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Being already no stranger to the general rapidity of my aunt's evolutions, I was not surprised by the suddenness of the proposal, and said: “Yes.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"I'm not surprised that you are," returned Dorothy.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
I was not surprised, therefore, on Monday night when a Mr. Latimer, a very fashionably dressed young man, came up to my rooms and asked me to accompany him in a cab which was waiting at the door.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
