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
Now justice and injustice are about certain actions and passions, which are unenduring and transitory.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
She was a dark, unenduring little flower—yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things.
From The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
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 Emile Joseph Dillon
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 Herbert Spencer
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