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- adjective Not
indulgent .
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Examples
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Dalgliesh reproached himself for the streak of puri-tanism which compared the room unfavourably with the snug, unindulgent shabbiness of Father Baddeley's sitting-room.
She Closed Her Eyes 2010
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So I asked my madrasi friend for a suggestion and he with is ever unindulgent tone said, " Oh, make some kara kozhambu".
Archive 2007-04-01 bhags 2007
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So I asked my madrasi friend for a suggestion and he with is ever unindulgent tone said, " Oh, make some kara kozhambu".
Celery kozhambu bhags 2007
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Mrs. Davis, however, was no stern monitor, unindulgent to the weakness of human nature.
The Three Clerks 2004
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My brother will tell you that I am proud, unindulgent, and hasty to take offence, but I doubt whether John Franklin will confirm it, although there is more truth in the charge than I wish there were.
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 1914
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My brother will tell you that I am proud, unindulgent, and hasty to take offence, but I doubt whether John Franklin will confirm it, although there is more truth in the charge than I wish there were.
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Ernest Scott 1903
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Sternly gazed the first newcomer on the unindulgent crowd,
The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902
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Mrs. Davis, however, was no stern monitor, unindulgent to the weakness of human nature.
The Three Clerks Anthony Trollope 1848
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His treatment of Switzerland was equally unindulgent.
Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835
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It sounds so unindulgent - sweet potato, cauliflower and coconut milk - but it was unputdownable.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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