unenduring

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Stone houses should be made of stone, and if made of wood or iron or plaster, they are nothing but shams, unenduring and unsatisfactory.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various

But pleasure with the poor is always unenduring.

From Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist by Smiles, Samuel

This, perhaps, was of the less moment as his anger was of an unenduring kind, evaporating frequently with more celerity than he could get the angry words out of his mouth.

From Doctor Thorne by Trollope, Anthony

Impulsiveness.—This trait is closely allied with the last: unenduring emotions are emotions which sway the conduct now this way and now that, without any consistency.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert

The long delay, coupled with fears lest that the Peace Treaty, when it does come, should prove to be a peace unworthy, unsatisfactory, unenduring, has made the hearts of the people sick.

From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph