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  • adjective Not mangled.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ mangled

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Examples

  • No, Si'N, yours is not an unmangled reading, yours is either uncomprehending or more consciously guile laden.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • No, Si'N, yours is not an unmangled reading, yours is either uncomprehending or more consciously guile laden.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • But one would have to deal with dusting off file labels from six years ago, scrounging for pens in the manner of a squirrel foraging for a nut and looking behind the copier for unmangled paperclips, because no new office products would be making their way to you, my friend.

    purplecigar Diary Entry purplecigar 2005

  • Our belated reports from the scene did not get through the censor unmangled, even though we quoted from official sources such as the university rector.

    Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001

  • Our belated reports from the scene did not get through the censor unmangled, even though we quoted from official sources such as the university rector.

    Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001

  • Our belated reports from the scene did not get through the censor unmangled, even though we quoted from official sources such as the university rector.

    Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001

  • An officer who it seems was one of the Brotherwhood requested that as a Mason he might have the body unmangled, and find a decent interment for it.

    Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 31 July - 2 August 1775 1963

  • As the clothes came from the laundry with many stains, unironed, unmangled, and looking in many respects as if they had not been washed, this detail of the handkerchief remained throughout my time in prison one of the most trying of the physical and minor disagreeables.

    Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences 1914

  • No man seemed to come into the room with an unmangled body.

    The Dark Forest Hugh Walpole 1912

  • I found the Duke on the shingles, curiously unmangled.

    The Betrayal 1906

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