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- adjective Not
planed .
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Examples
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Most of the illeterate people are causing unplaned birth.
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There is a door to each room, the oak chairs are bright with rubbing, and the floor, though unplaned, is so clean that one might eat off it.
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I got down and found a single room of the rudest kind, with the wall at one end partially broken down, holes in the roof, holes for windows, and no furniture but two chairs and two unplaned wooden shelves, with some sacks of straw upon them for beds.
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Nor was it the solid, lofty structure, fifteen or twenty feet high, which art has been glorifying for a thousand years, but a rude gibbet of unplaned wood, roughly nailed together, barely eight feet high, and not too heavy for a strong man to carry on his shoulders.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
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No aching color of the sea and pride of supercilious people, but the reality of a round-bellied nickel alarm-clock on a shelf against a fuzzy unplaned pine wall, with a stiff gray wash-rag hanging above it and a kerosene-stove standing below.
Main Street 2004
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Outside a shack built of poles and branches, at a table formed simply of three unplaned boards laid on a trestle stuck firmly into the ground, sat Rybin, all blackened, his shirt open at his breast,
Mother 2003
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I liked the musty smell of the attic and the feel of the unplaned floorboards.
Wait Till Next Year Doris Kearns Goodwin 1997
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I liked the musty smell of the attic and the feel of the unplaned floorboards.
Wait Till Next Year Doris Kearns Goodwin 1997
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They were almost at the doorway when a ripple of flame flowed suddenly along the surface of a roofbeam, peeling off the unplaned surface in a flurry of sparks, and caught the coarse homespun curtain that served to shut out the cold wind when the doors were closed and the household home at night.
The Virgin In The Ice Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1982
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His tongue, like an unplaned splinter of wood, tore the roof of his mouth when he fought to make it speak.
A Morbid Taste For Bones Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1977
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