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- adjective Not
browbeaten orfrightened intosubmission orcompliance .
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Examples
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To the contrary, though she's tied up, she is uncowed.
Mikhail Lyubansky: Did Kanye West Create A Monster? Mikhail Lyubansky 2011
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The arrival of an uncowed and fearless Stark throws the Wild Man among the pigeons, and draws the attention of one of the women - provoking jealousy in the man who would wed her.
Archive 2010-04-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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But Red Shirt leader and opposition lawmaker Jatuporn Phrompan said in an interview at Saturday's Pattaya concert which drew about 4,000 people and f eatured a telephone message from the driving force behind many of the rallies, fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra that the crackdown had left the movement uncowed.
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The change-we-need is accurate analysis and effective communication uncowed by rightwing rhetoric.
Paul Abrams: Dems (and Obama) Are Losing the Economic Argument: They May Also Lose the Economy 2009
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And if ever we needed an uncowed truth-teller on the international scene, the time is now ...
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The Wechslers were among the few whites who remained uncowed by the venomous racism that gripped Levittown that summer.
Mean Streets 2009
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Club for Growth is uncowed, ready for jihad against Crist, Carly Fiorina in the California Senate race and a host of other Republicans whom leaders deem insufficiently batty.
Susan J. Demas: How Sarah Palin and Tea Partiers Are Blowing Up the GOP 2009
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Norah, uncowed, replies "Of course he's creepy - he has one arm."
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Williams has a reputation as the most determined and uncowed of
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But with a strong constituency and networks reaching out to powerful tribes extending into the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula, the Sunnis were uncowed and launched their now nightmarish insurgency.
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