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  • adjective Not dirtied with mud.

Etymologies

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From mud +‎ -less.

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Examples

  • The two first lieutenants mounted the steps to the poop, where Sinclair kept his chicken coop, a pen of sheep and goats, and six plump porkers in a mudless sty well shielded from the sun and having a salt water pool so that the pigs could submerge their knees and keep their body temperature down.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • The two first lieutenants mounted the steps to the poop, where Sinclair kept his chicken coop, a pen of sheep and goats, and six plump porkers in a mudless sty well shielded from the sun and having a salt water pool so that the pigs could submerge their knees and keep their body temperature down.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • The streets in the residental section were graded and surfaced and provided the inhabitants with mudless streets; a luxury they had given up hope of ever enjoying.

    Emergency Relief in North Carolina. A Record of the Development and the Activities of the North Carolina Emergency Relief Administration, 1932-1935. North Carolina Emergency Relief Commission, State administrator, Mrs. Thomas O'Berry. Edited by J.S. Kirk, Walter A. Cutter [and] Thomas W. Morse 1933

  • Kensington -- to mind; their shoes were mudless; their gloves had not been bought in the sales.

    Living Alone Stella Benson 1912

  • He believed that God had incarnated in Jesus Christ, been born of a woman (I imagine he is thinking that Jesus' vaginal delivery was free of the usual feces, amniotic fluid and blood that is associated with non-mythical deliveries) in a stable (that was thankfully free of mud), grown up as a carpenter's son in Nazareth (a mireless, mudless town), wandered around Galilee where I'm sure there was not a speck of mire and mud ... perhaps the Romans paved it with marble ... and then been crucified without any mire and buried in a mudless tomb.

    Is There Evidence For Mythicism? James F. McGrath 2010

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