unseduced

[ uhn-si-doost, -dyoost ]

adjective

1. not seduced, especially by the lure of personal gain, power, fame, etc.:

   He remained unseduced by the graft offered him.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unseduced¹

First recorded in 1555–65; un- ¹ + seduce ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

Try as I might to recapture the excitement of first seeing the work in New York in 2003, I was unseduced, visually and dramatically.

From Los Angeles Times

The dragon slayers were, quite simply, the unseduced.

From Washington Post

If you are a wandering, homeless Christian, scarred by original sin, the answer might be: in the arms of a wandering Jew—but one whose own itinerancy is unseduced by the lure of religion, whose own secularism is not tempted by the simplicity of religious masochism.

From The New Yorker

Many fans remained unseduced, however, and Who You Are didn’t break the US top 30.

From The Guardian

I address myself solely and severely, sternly, without a flower, prosaically, without a figure, soberly, without a flight, to your cool, temperate, and unseduced capacity of logical deduction.

From Project Gutenberg