"uncelebration" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From un- + celebration.",
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          "ref": "1990, Robert Reginald Garnett, From Grimes to Brideshead: The Early Novels of Evelyn Waugh, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Discussing Men at Arms, the first volume of his later war trilogy, Waugh explained that it \"was a kind of uncelebration, a history of Guy Crouchback's disillusion with the army.",
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          "ref": "1998, Michele Gillespie, Catherine Clinton, Taking Off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women Historians, →ISBN:",
          "text": "In her essay, she took her cue from the conflicted uncelebrations surrounding the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus's contact with the Americas.",
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          "ref": "2007, Dana Stabenow, A Deeper Sleep, →ISBN, page 152:",
          "text": "He and Bobby Clark had a lot in common, and he was first on the guest list to Bobby's vets-only annual uncelebration of the Tet Offensive.",
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        "A memorial of something bad."
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          "ref": "1978, Cars & Parts - Volume 21, page 26:",
          "text": "In contrast to all the whooppee that surrounded the Corvette's Silver Anniversary the observation of its 10th year of existence in 1962 had all the trappings of an uncelebration.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, Hugh Fleetwood, A Dance to the Glory of God, page 78:",
          "text": "And the idea of a celebration that celebrated only her, or a celebration that celebrated only celebration, struck her as being cold, narcissistic, and ultimately sterile; a joyless uncelebration in fact.",
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          "ref": "2008, Gerald Vizenor, Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence, →ISBN, page 341:",
          "text": "If the Osage or Wazhazhe reference scheme is celebratory, not to say mythic and historic, the follow-on Las Vegas reference scheme is all uncelebration.",
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        "A celebration that lacks any celebratory feeling or actions."
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          "ref": "1998, Michele Gillespie, Catherine Clinton, Taking Off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women Historians, →ISBN:",
          "text": "In her essay, she took her cue from the conflicted uncelebrations surrounding the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus's contact with the Americas.",
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          "ref": "2007, Dana Stabenow, A Deeper Sleep, →ISBN, page 152:",
          "text": "He and Bobby Clark had a lot in common, and he was first on the guest list to Bobby's vets-only annual uncelebration of the Tet Offensive.",
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          "text": "And the idea of a celebration that celebrated only her, or a celebration that celebrated only celebration, struck her as being cold, narcissistic, and ultimately sterile; a joyless uncelebration in fact.",
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