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- adjective Not
superstitious .
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Examples
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It's about as lucky as a self-harming princess's black ballgown; surely nobody is unsuperstitious enough to wear it for their own wedding?
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So swift was that transition from the grisly unreal to the normal that even to my unsuperstitious mind it smacked of necromancy.
The Metal Monster 2004
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And superstitious dread came to the unsuperstitious Soames; he turned his eyes away lest he should stare the little house into real unreality.
On Forsyte 'Change 2004
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Men crowded about -- the bolder spirits, the matter of fact, and the unsuperstitious among the crew -- and Bill turned again to Moncrossen, who stood rooted in his tracks.
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I come now to the system of selecting officials by competitive examination, without which it is hardly likely that so literary and unsuperstitious a system as that of Confucius could have maintained its hold.
The Problem of China Bertrand Russell 1921
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It is to the credit of the unsuperstitious character of English speaking people that while the
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The first glance was admiration alone, the second brought a thrill of something uncomfortably like fear, for to the most unsuperstitious of minds there was still something unpleasantly eerie in this unexpected apparition.
Pixie O'Shaughnessy George de Horne Vaizey 1887
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His practical and unsuperstitious partner opened and read the letters.
The Lifeboat 1859
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About a century ago, a man so famous, and by repute so unsuperstitious, as Dr. Doddridge, was guided in
Autobiographical Sketches Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Even the most jaded of us loves a fortune cookie, and the most unsuperstitious of us cannot resist extracting its contents.
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