Definitions

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  • adjective Not assuaged; not calmed, appeased, mitigated, alleviated, satisfied or diminished.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ assuaged

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Examples

  • Given the outrage which the discovery that a significant proportion of our MPs were living high on the hog at public expense caused, let us think a moment how we might to our eternal advantage deflect the outrage of our citizens (which, given the continuing lack of contrition of most MPs about their larcenies, is as yet unassuaged) from those undoubted swine onto the State as a whole.

    Let Us Destroy The Big State 2009

  • Given the outrage which the discovery that a significant proportion of our MPs were living high on the hog at public expense caused, let us think a moment how we might to our eternal advantage deflect the outrage of our citizens (which, given the continuing lack of contrition of most MPs about their larcenies, is as yet unassuaged) from those undoubted swine onto the State as a whole.

    Archive 2009-08-30 2009

  • And since the example was set on high and citizens mysteriously but constantly take the princes 'behavior as the standard for their own, it's the guarantee of a feverish, unassuaged, confrontational society where resentment and hatred will rapidly become the last ties of the social contract.

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: Nicolas Sarkozy's Three Errors 2010

  • Faramir dies, Boromir lives with his guilt unassuaged or not, I can see excellent dramatic potential either way

    The Real Fantastic Stuff, an essay by Richard K. Morgan - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games 2009

  • I am unassuaged in my being pissed at George for making me wait far, far, too long for these books.

    In Defense of George R. R. Martin - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games 2009

  • His need for approval unassuaged by the giant success of "" Titanic, '' Cameron wrote a diatribe in the March 28 Los Angeles Times attacking its movie critic, Kenneth Turan.

    The Court Of King Jim 2008

  • For those whose curiosity remains unassuaged, a recent CD "Les Travailleurs de la Mer", songs in Dgèrnésiais, is available - clips can be listened to online from Amazon:

    languagehat.com: THE LANGUAGES OF GUERNSEY. 2005

  • I believe you lay down at last in your coffin none the wiser and unassuaged.

    Archive 2004-02-01 Torill 2004

  • I believe you lay down at last in your coffin none the wiser and unassuaged.

    02/01/2004 - 03/01/2004 Torill 2004

  • It is no mere reform of legislation, whilst the furious passions and evil propensities of the human heart, in which it had its origin, are still unassuaged.

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

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