Definitions

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  • adjective Not sugared.

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  • adjective with no sugar added

Etymologies

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un- +‎ sugared

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Examples

  • John is known as a ‘blunt’ critic; one who tells his unsugared truths directly, who is not reticent to attack ‘with savagery’ books he feels insult him.

    On Negative Book Reviewing: Audio Interview with John Metcalf 2009

  • John is known as a ‘blunt’ critic; one who tells his unsugared truths directly, who is not reticent to attack ‘with savagery’ books he feels insult him.

    2009 May 14 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

  • Does the plain, unsugared doughy type bagel look alike surpass the overly decorated with hundreds and thousands and pumped full of sweet chemicals with optional coating of chocolate (half dipped) Tescos Express doughnut win every time?

    Rabbit Stew. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • From now till election day he should just try using his blunt unsugared honesty to tell the British public what he REALLY feels.

    Martin Lewis: UK Election: Conservatives Poised to Give Britain a Good Flocking... 2010

  • But perhaps it was there on the terrace of the Villa America, tossing back Bailey cocktails, that Hemingway acquired his taste for tart, unsugared drinks.

    He Was a Cocktail Artist 2009

  • Honest-to-goodness maraschino liqueur, by contrast, is subtle and elusive, and a sly way to add just a hint of sweetness to an otherwise unsugared drink.

    Hemingway's Daiquiri 2008

  • Sitting now with his unsugared tea, he thinks that he might have found the way out.

    Valfierno Martín Caparrós 2008

  • Sitting now with his unsugared tea, he thinks that he might have found the way out.

    Valfierno Martín Caparrós 2008

  • I also tend to prefer an unsugared cookie, since sugaring peanut butter cookies seems like gilding the lily, to me.

    peanut butter cookies | smitten kitchen 2007

  • Not much for eating filet mignon and scrambled eggs in the middle of the night, he only had coffee, black and unsugared, like he learned to drink it back in the navy.

    First Man James R. Hansen 2005

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