Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not curbed, in any sense of that word.
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- adjective
Unlimited ;unrestricted .
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- adjective not restrained or controlled
Etymologies
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Examples
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Because he had not become a boazer, he was leaving Repton uncorrupted and with his rebellious nature uncurbed.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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Free enterprise did not bring us the current economic disaster, although free enterprise has become a favorite whipping post of many left leaning expectants of an uncurbed welfare state, and of the current administration.
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But sometimes, usually at night, the president became someone else -- call him "Mr. Bill" -- a doughy, needy mass of uncurbed appetites and fits of irrationality.
The Two Mr. Clintons 2008
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With the whole power of the government at its back, and with a Constitution so amended as to extend the amplest protection to the new-made citizen, it left him to the inhuman mercy of men whose uncurbed passions, whose deeds of lawlessness and defiance, pale into virtues the ferocity of Cossack warfare.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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With the whole power of the government at its back, and with a Constitution so amended as to extend the amplest protection to the new-made citizen, it left him to the inhuman mercy of men whose uncurbed passions, whose deeds of lawlessness and defiance, pale into virtues the ferocity of Cossack warfare.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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With the whole power of the government at its back, and with a Constitution so amended as to extend the amplest protection to the new-made citizen, it left him to the inhuman mercy of men whose uncurbed passions, whose deeds of lawlessness and defiance, pale into virtues the ferocity of Cossack warfare.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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With the whole power of the government at its back, and with a Constitution so amended as to extend the amplest protection to the new-made citizen, it left him to the inhuman mercy of men whose uncurbed passions, whose deeds of lawlessness and defiance, pale into virtues the ferocity of Cossack warfare.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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With the whole power of the government at its back, and with a Constitution so amended as to extend the amplest protection to the new-made citizen, it left him to the inhuman mercy of men whose uncurbed passions, whose deeds of lawlessness and defiance, pale into virtues the ferocity of Cossack warfare.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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If the American public's insatiable appetite for automobiles continues, uncurbed by any sense of responsibility, someone must, like a parent with a selfish child, at least start slapping wrists.
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If the American public's insatiable appetite for automobiles continues, uncurbed by any sense of responsibility, someone must, like a parent with a selfish child, at least start slapping wrists.
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