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  • adjective Not kissed, not having been kissed by someone.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of unkiss.

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Examples

  • He knew her feet had been born to easy paths and sunny lands, strangers to the moccasined pain of the North, unkissed by the chill lips of the frost, and he watched and marveled at them twinkling ever through the weary day.

    THE WISDOM OF THE TRAIL 2010

  • He knew her feet had been born to easy paths and sunny lands, strangers to the moccasined pain of the North, unkissed by the chill lips of the frost, and he watched and marveled at them twinkling ever through the weary day.

    The Wisdom of the Trail 2010

  • Eventually he puttered off and I continued to the Taj Mahal, unkissed and happy.

    Traveling in India: Kisses at the Taj Mahal « Colleen Anderson 2010

  •     When two people say Goodbye in a parked Jeep Grand Cherokee on a star-freckled January night, and the air-conditioned air is thick with kisses unkissed, and his index finger gently strokes her goosepimpled knee and he turns off the air conditioner without a word, goodbye suddenly becomes Goodbye-with-a-captial-G, and to say it means they will miss each other.

    Is This Something? 2010

  • Maybe that unkissed kiss was the gift you gave me, waiting there in the space between us — not given, not taken.

    Gifts 2010

  • It sometimes happens that when some ancient lips are presented I would fain pass them by unkissed, but when I start in I have to take it as it comes.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • This was the trouble he brought on himself for insisting on unkissed lips.

    The Lady Matador’s Hotel Cristina García 2010

  • It sometimes happens that when some ancient lips are presented I would fain pass them by unkissed, but when I start in I have to take it as it comes.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Surprisingly has an unkissed 47 year old woman from Blackburn become a megastar worldwide.

    Unkissed talent makes web success. 2009

  • Better were men, strangers, unkissed, undressed, and handled with emotion left in the discarded clothes.

    Bi « First 50 Words – Writing Prompts 2009

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