inæsthetic

Adjective

 * 1) * 1878, May Laffan, The Hon. Miss Ferrard, page 262 (George Munro):
 * “It’s a bad habit I have acquired abroad. Our salon in Vienna was always full of diplomats of all sorts; and moreover, what has one in Ireland but politics? We don’t read; we don’t paint; we are all utterly ignorant and inæsthetic. We are exactly fifty years behind England in culture.”
 * 1) * 1878, May Laffan, The Hon. Miss Ferrard, page 262 (George Munro):
 * “It’s a bad habit I have acquired abroad. Our salon in Vienna was always full of diplomats of all sorts; and moreover, what has one in Ireland but politics? We don’t read; we don’t paint; we are all utterly ignorant and inæsthetic. We are exactly fifty years behind England in culture.”