1799 lines
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1799 lines
73 KiB
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{
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"ungainful":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": not gainful":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\"+"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-140229",
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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]
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},
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"ungainliness":{
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"antonyms":[
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"handy"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": hard to handle : unwieldy":[
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"an ungainly contraption"
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],
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": having an awkward appearance":[
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"a large ungainly bird"
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],
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": lacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy":[
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"ungainly movements"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"He was tall and ungainly .",
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"getting the ungainly couch up the stairs was a real chore",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The magazine\u2019s declared charge was to bring ungainly life and youthful indiscretion to a culture bounded by cloying upstart institutions (McSweeney\u2019s) and stuffy, older ones (James Wood writing at The New Republic). \u2014 Phillip Maciak, The New Republic , 27 June 2022",
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"Newell designed this ungainly Willy Wonka\u2013esque apparatus over decades in a costly process of trial and error that faced\u2014and ultimately overcame\u2014several challenges, including protecting the mussels from turbulent seas and voracious eider ducks. \u2014 Ellen Ruppel Shell, Scientific American , 1 May 2022",
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"Not unlike Frankenstein\u2019s monster, Brian\u2019s ungainly creation comes alive during a thunderstorm. \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 June 2022",
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"Horse relies on ungainly cliff-hangers to pull the reader from chapter to chapter. \u2014 Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic , 10 June 2022",
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"But bending her deeply ingrained poise into a more ungainly , everyday shape \u2014 while continuing to kick ass \u2014 may be Yeoh\u2019s most complicated assignment yet. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Mar. 2022",
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"In its assembly hall, the desk microphones cut the air at ungainly angles. \u2014 James Verini, New York Times , 19 May 2022",
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"The ungainly , 400,000 square-foot mass of interconnected structures seemed to have swallowed Pereira\u2019s original design whole. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 Apr. 2022",
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"In a contest of humans against all other animals in the efficiency of locomotion, humans on foot are about as ungainly , or gainly, as sheep. \u2014 The New Yorker , 23 May 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1611, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"obsolete gain direct, from Middle English gayn, geyn , from Old English g\u0113n , from Old Norse gegn , from gegn , preposition, against; akin to Old English g\u0113an- against \u2014 more at again":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8g\u0101n-l\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"awkward",
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"bunglesome",
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"clumsy",
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"clunky",
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"cranky",
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"cumbersome",
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"cumbrous",
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"ponderous",
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"unhandy",
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"unwieldy"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-185043",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"ungainly":{
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"antonyms":[
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"handy"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": hard to handle : unwieldy":[
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"an ungainly contraption"
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],
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": having an awkward appearance":[
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"a large ungainly bird"
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],
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": lacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy":[
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"ungainly movements"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"He was tall and ungainly .",
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"getting the ungainly couch up the stairs was a real chore",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The magazine\u2019s declared charge was to bring ungainly life and youthful indiscretion to a culture bounded by cloying upstart institutions (McSweeney\u2019s) and stuffy, older ones (James Wood writing at The New Republic). \u2014 Phillip Maciak, The New Republic , 27 June 2022",
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"Newell designed this ungainly Willy Wonka\u2013esque apparatus over decades in a costly process of trial and error that faced\u2014and ultimately overcame\u2014several challenges, including protecting the mussels from turbulent seas and voracious eider ducks. \u2014 Ellen Ruppel Shell, Scientific American , 1 May 2022",
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"Not unlike Frankenstein\u2019s monster, Brian\u2019s ungainly creation comes alive during a thunderstorm. \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 June 2022",
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"Horse relies on ungainly cliff-hangers to pull the reader from chapter to chapter. \u2014 Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic , 10 June 2022",
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"But bending her deeply ingrained poise into a more ungainly , everyday shape \u2014 while continuing to kick ass \u2014 may be Yeoh\u2019s most complicated assignment yet. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Mar. 2022",
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"In its assembly hall, the desk microphones cut the air at ungainly angles. \u2014 James Verini, New York Times , 19 May 2022",
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"The ungainly , 400,000 square-foot mass of interconnected structures seemed to have swallowed Pereira\u2019s original design whole. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 Apr. 2022",
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"In a contest of humans against all other animals in the efficiency of locomotion, humans on foot are about as ungainly , or gainly, as sheep. \u2014 The New Yorker , 23 May 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1611, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"obsolete gain direct, from Middle English gayn, geyn , from Old English g\u0113n , from Old Norse gegn , from gegn , preposition, against; akin to Old English g\u0113an- against \u2014 more at again":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8g\u0101n-l\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"awkward",
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"bunglesome",
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"clumsy",
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"clunky",
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"cranky",
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"cumbersome",
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"cumbrous",
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"ponderous",
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"unhandy",
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"unwieldy"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-192747",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"ungainsayable":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": incapable of being contradicted":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"un- entry 1 + gainsay + -able":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u00a6\u0259n\u00a6g\u0101n\u00a6s\u0101\u0259b\u0259l"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-081854",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb"
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]
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},
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"ungallant":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": not marked by courtesy or valor : not gallant":[
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"Ungallant behavior toward a woman was not in his nature.",
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"\u2014 Russell Baker"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The Times made ungallant references to Taft\u2019s heft, and to the chief reason for his visit, to see his sister. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Feb. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1710, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cc\u0259n-g\u0259-\u02c8lant",
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"-g\u0259-\u02c8l\u00e4nt",
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"-\u02c8ga-l\u0259nt"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-062031",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb"
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]
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},
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"ungenerosity":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": lack of generosity":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"What Warren fails to recognize is that the formula of progress that dictates these measures also dictates that they will someday be regarded as the ungenerosity of a primitive people. \u2014 Greg Weiner, National Review , 26 Sep. 2019"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1757, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02ccje-n\u0259-\u02c8r\u00e4-s\u0259-t\u0113",
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"-\u02c8r\u00e4-st\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-044333",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"ungenerous":{
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"antonyms":[
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"bounteous",
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"bountiful",
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"charitable",
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"freehanded",
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"generous",
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"liberal",
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"munificent",
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"openhanded",
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"unsparing",
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"unstinting"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": deficient in liberality : stingy":[
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"an ungenerous offer"
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],
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": not generous:":[],
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": petty , mean":[
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"ungenerous criticisms"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"it is ungenerous for someone of his ample means not to provide more for the care of his aging parents",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"In that context, judging Fire Island too harshly as a film feels a little ungenerous : Director Andrew Ahn (who helmed the microbudget coming-out story Spa Night and the lovely, low-key indie Driveways) aims mostly for function and fizz here. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 31 May 2022",
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"And yet, Genshin Impact\u2019s social team keeps running out-of-game promotions that are simply ludicrous in terms of the scale of prizes, and the game keeps exhausting players by appearing decidedly ungenerous . \u2014 Paul Tassi, Forbes , 28 Dec. 2021",
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"My mother was raised in an ungenerous home, and from her youngest years was looking for any safe space available to her. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Dec. 2021",
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"Now, its reporting faults News Showcase as unfair and ungenerous . \u2014 Zenger News, Forbes , 26 Oct. 2021",
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"The breathtaking high point of The Green Knight is a montage in which decades fly by, and Gawain ages into a stern and ungenerous leader of men and an indifferent user of women. \u2014 Alison Willmore, Vulture , 27 July 2021",
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"This might sound obvious, but its logic lately has played out for me during quarantine, when anxious projections and ungenerous readings haunted too many interactions. \u2014 Jane Hu, The New Yorker , 11 June 2021",
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"The National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, through which the U.S. government supports arts and culture, have pitifully ungenerous budgets and had become dishearteningly large political footballs. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 18 Jan. 2021",
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"The sauce is a little too pasty, and the toppings situation is ungenerous . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 Jan. 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1641, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-\u02c8je-n\u0259-",
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8jen-r\u0259s"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"cheap",
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"chintzy",
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"close",
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"closefisted",
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"mean",
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"mingy",
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"miserly",
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"niggard",
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"niggardly",
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"parsimonious",
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"penny-pinching",
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"penurious",
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"pinching",
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"pinchpenny",
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"spare",
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"sparing",
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"stingy",
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"stinting",
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"tight",
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"tightfisted",
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"uncharitable"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-051820",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb"
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]
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},
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"ungenial":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": not genial : not pleasant or cheerful":[
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"\u2026 in the ungenial climate and soil of New England \u2026",
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"\u2014 Nathaniel Hawthorne",
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"\u2026 for having the strength to get up every morning in the '70s and sit opposite the surly and ungenial Harry Reasoner.",
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"\u2014 Lynette Rice"
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]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1796, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8j\u0113n-y\u0259l",
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"-\u02c8j\u0113-n\u0113-\u0259l"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-114431",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb"
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]
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},
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"ungenteel":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": not genteel : lacking in courtesy or refinement : inelegant":[
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"The young ladies arrived: their appearance was by no means ungenteel or unfashionable.",
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"\u2014 Jane Austen"
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]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1633, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cc\u0259n-jen-\u02c8t\u0113l"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-210947",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb"
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]
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},
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"ungentle":{
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"antonyms":[
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"benign",
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"benignant",
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"gentle",
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"mild",
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"nonintimidating",
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"tender"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": not gentle : lacking in softness, delicacy, etc. : harsh , rough":[
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"an ungentle touch",
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"\u2026 with the two gentlemen pursuing their ungentle quarrel in magazines, television studios, and courtrooms \u2026",
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"\u2014 Hendrik Hertzberg"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"But going back to trying to be gentle in ungentle times. \u2014 Stephanie Stradley, Houston Chronicle , 25 Sep. 2020",
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"Notes From an Apocalypse is a gentle argument for coming to terms with the precarity of life, published in a moment where people are facing its fragility in an immediate and ungentle context. \u2014 Kate Knibbs, Wired , 16 Apr. 2020"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1509, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8jen-t\u1d4al"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"austere",
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"dour",
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"fierce",
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"flinty",
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"forbidding",
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"grim",
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"gruff",
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"intimidating",
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"lowering",
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"louring",
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"rough",
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"rugged",
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"severe",
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"stark",
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"steely",
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"stern"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-223511",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb"
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]
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},
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"ungifted":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": not endowed with a special talent or superior intellectual capacity : not gifted":[
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"an ungifted performer"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The glamorous women who pursued Lawrence were flummoxed by his loyalty to Frieda: stout, older than he was, decidedly ungifted with words. \u2014 Rebecca Panovka, The New Yorker , 2 June 2021",
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"Portland, with a very ungifted mayor, should request help from the Federal Government. \u2014 Emma Colton, Washington Examiner , 30 Aug. 2020"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1637, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8gif-t\u0259d"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-111551",
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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]
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},
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"ungild":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": to remove gilding from":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"un- entry 2 + gild":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\"+"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-235253",
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"type":[
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"transitive verb"
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]
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},
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"ungilded":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": not overlaid with gilding":[
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"frames gilded and ungilded",
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"\u2014 London Gazette"
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]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"ungilded from un- entry 1 + gilded; ungilt from Middle English, from un- entry 1 + gilt":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-022028",
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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]
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},
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"ungimmicky":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": not having gimmicks : not gimmicky":[
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"The surfers \u2026 had smooth, ungimmicky styles.",
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"\u2014 William Finnegan",
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"ungimmicky hotels",
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"an ungimmicky action movie"
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]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1963, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8gi-mi-k\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-175219",
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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},
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"unginned":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": not ginned":[
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"unginned cotton"
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]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"un- entry 1 + ginned , past participle of gin":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\"+"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-005118",
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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]
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},
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"ungird":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": to divest of a restraining band or girdle : unbind":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8g\u0259rd"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060801",
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"type":[
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"ungirdled":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": not girdled":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"un- entry 1 + girdled , past participle of girdle":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\"+"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-212808",
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"type":[
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"adjective"
|
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]
|
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},
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"ungirt":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
|
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": having the belt or girdle off or loose":[],
|
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": lacking in discipline or compactness : loose , slack":[]
|
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},
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"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8g\u0259rt"
|
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-212902",
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"ungirth":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": to release by undoing a girth":[
|
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"ungirthing his saddle",
|
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"\u2014 Henry Brooke"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"un- entry 2 + girth":""
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\"+"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-203511",
|
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"type":[
|
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"transitive verb"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"ungive":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": to lose rigidity : become pliable : melt":[]
|
|
},
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"un- entry 2 + give":""
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\"+"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-005254",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"intransitive verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"ungiven":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
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": not given":[
|
|
"a person not ungiven to words",
|
|
"\u2014 John Mason Brown"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\"+"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-200716",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"ungiving":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": characterized by rigidity : adamant , inflexible":[
|
|
"if the mother is a cold, ungiving , stern and disciplinary one",
|
|
"\u2014 Carl Binger"
|
|
],
|
|
": exhibiting parsimony : frugal , stingy":[
|
|
"stingy, ungiving people",
|
|
"\u2014 Vance Packard"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"un- entry 1 + giving , present participle of give":""
|
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
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"\"+"
|
|
],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-114529",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"unglamorous":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": not excitingly attractive : not glamorous":[
|
|
"unglamorous work",
|
|
"\u2026 only 80 pay to enter this unglamorous , graffiti-scarred brick building with views of the Thames.",
|
|
"\u2014 Asher Price"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The unglamorous realities of production have long been hidden from the public in order to preserve the magic of mass-market consumption. \u2014 Amanda Mull, The Atlantic , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"Keeping your house squeaky clean is, well, a chore\u2014one that typically requires unglamorous trappings like elbow grease, chemicals, and motivation. \u2014 Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor , 3 June 2022",
|
|
"Consider its distinctly unglamorous nickname: Hump Day. \u2014 Peter Grant, WSJ , 11 May 2022",
|
|
"It\u2019s unglamorous work, even if her resulting sculptural cakes are destined for chic clients like Marc Jacobs and, soon, the Noguchi Museum. \u2014 Aliza Abarbanel, Bon App\u00e9tit , 10 May 2022",
|
|
"With more businesses starting, more founders are encountering the pain of bookkeeping (these unglamorous tasks are not usually part of the founder\u2019s dream). \u2014 Frederick Daso, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Wildfire is instead an unglamorous and endemic type of disaster, one that risks being normalized by the sheer frequency of its occurrence; Those Who Wish Me Dead is the rare movie with a healthy respect for its villain. \u2014 Jo Livingstone, The New Republic , 21 May 2021",
|
|
"The 6-foot-2, 330-pound nose tackle performs a lot of unglamorous work that doesn\u2019t end up in the box score, and plenty that does. \u2014 James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 13 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Meanwhile, the unglamorous schools and universities that educate the vast majority of American students are cutting instruction and instructors in philosophy, arts, and other fields that Berggruen aims to cultivate. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 8 Apr. 2022"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"circa 1934, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8glam-r\u0259s",
|
|
"-\u02c8gla-m\u0259-"
|
|
],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-234523",
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"unglued":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
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": upset , disordered":[
|
|
"\u2014 usually used with come chief executives came unglued at the thought of a strike \u2014 H. E. Meyer"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Homophobia bubbles up from the dark places of other men\u2019s souls; even Lemming\u2019s closest friend, Davey Battle, a religious man who plays for an opposing team in more ways than one, comes unglued by it. \u2014 New York Times , 4 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Meredith also comes unglued , backing up Brooks\u2019 story. \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 16 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"In 1800, our country almost came unglued following the election that eventually elevated Jefferson to the presidency, which ended Federalist rule. \u2014 CBS News , 10 June 2022",
|
|
"There was a feeling of something coming unglued and a sense that all of it was hurtling toward a decisive break, but also a camaraderie among journalists who, despite other disagreements, were similarly disturbed by the ugly circus in Washington. \u2014 David Faris, The Week , 12 May 2022",
|
|
"Despite stranding a leadoff single in the second, the left-hander came unglued in the third. \u2014 Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times , 10 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"During a private flight to orbit in September funded by a technology entrepreneur, a tube became unglued on that vehicle and urine from passengers wasn\u2019t deposited in a storage tank as designed. \u2014 Micah Maidenberg, WSJ , 4 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"The Associated Press reported that the company discovered that a tube had come unglued , spilling urine onto the floor and sparking concerns of a possible leak in the spacecraft. \u2014 Caroline Glenn, orlandosentinel.com , 29 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"Just like Staples will be removed from the court, the Lakers\u2019 defensive progress have mostly come unglued with Davis stuck in sweats. \u2014 Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times , 23 Dec. 2021"
|
|
],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1922, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8gl\u00fcd"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-231349",
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"ungodly":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": contrary to moral law : sinful , wicked":[
|
|
"\u2026 he was himself so wicked a creature, and his own conscience so reproached him with his horrid, ungodly life \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 Daniel Defoe",
|
|
"Look at what's happened to our ozone layer \u2026 ! We have destroyed this planet with our ungodly ways!",
|
|
"\u2014 John Way"
|
|
],
|
|
": denying or disobeying God : impious , irreligious":[
|
|
"\u2026 the listener fancied that he could distinguish the accents of towns-people of his own, men and women, both pious and ungodly \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 Nathaniel Hawthorne"
|
|
],
|
|
": far exceeding the ordinary, usual, or expected":[
|
|
"an ungodly feat",
|
|
"ungodly speeds",
|
|
"In the blackened interior of the smokehouse hang enormous hams, some an ungodly fifty-five pounds. \"People want a large ham,\" Guier comments modestly.",
|
|
"\u2014 Matt Kramer"
|
|
],
|
|
": outrageous":[
|
|
"gets up at an ungodly hour",
|
|
"\u2026 this sandwich has an impressive nuanced batter that for some ungodly reason is lost on the rest of the fast food community.",
|
|
"\u2014 The Catalyst: Colorado College"
|
|
],
|
|
": severely objectionable to the senses":[
|
|
"an ungodly smell",
|
|
"The bark of a fox, ungodly screech of a coon, \u2026 and the howls and yips of coyote all travel far on the still, damp night air.",
|
|
"\u2014 M. L. Wells"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"What an ungodly racket they're making!",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Our culture now places what many see as an ungodly amount of power in the hands of the most influential social platforms. \u2014 Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone , 30 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"These guys spend ungodly amounts of time creating and tweaking (then re-creating and re-tweaking) new routine to get bigger and better pumps, with a list of exercises longer than a dictionary. \u2014 Jeff Tomko, Men's Health , 29 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"His efforts pay off, nominally: Michael Morbius doesn\u2019t want to be a baddie, though his ungodly urges keep pulling him in that direction. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 31 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"If not, then the slow creep of inflation will just eat away at America\u2019s nickel piggy banks while hoarders manage all the logistical headaches of storing coins in such ungodly quantities. \u2014 Saahil Desai, The Atlantic , 18 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"In that whirlwind, some 400 people were implicated in the ungodly practice of witchery. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 28 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"Newsom\u2019s strategy is an unimaginative blunderbuss approach \u2014 raising ungodly amounts of cash from billionaires and special interests, and bludgeoning recall proponents as dangerous insurrectionist tools of former President Donald Trump. \u2014 Rich Lowry, National Review , 27 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"The Devil Wears Prada, a tale of a struggling journalist, Andy (Anne Hathaway), cutting her teeth (and shredding deep personal ties in the process) while working through ungodly pressure at Runway fashion magazine. \u2014 Joey Nolfi, EW.com , 14 June 2021",
|
|
"The notion of a single ungodly disaster that finally spurs us to action and compels the government to respond is a fantasy. \u2014 Greg Jackson, Harper's Magazine , 25 May 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1526, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"also -\u02c8g\u022fd-",
|
|
"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8g\u00e4d-l\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-083150",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"ungovernable":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"amenable",
|
|
"biddable",
|
|
"compliant",
|
|
"conformable",
|
|
"docile",
|
|
"obedient",
|
|
"ruly",
|
|
"submissive",
|
|
"tractable"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": not capable of being governed, guided, or restrained":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The people there seemed almost ungovernable .",
|
|
"a handful of ungovernable students are disrupting the learning environment for everyone else",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Women will become ungovernable as these unjust laws begin to be the law of the land in states across the country. \u2014 Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press , 4 May 2022",
|
|
"The old nostrum that France is ungovernable may be tested again. \u2014 New York Times , 23 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"During his tenure, militants linked to the Islamic State and al-Qaeda have upended life in the nation of 21 million, rendering much of the countryside ungovernable and driving at least 1.4 million people from their homes. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is pledging to make the chamber all but ungovernable if the rules change gambit succeeds. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 12 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"So listen: Right now your space, your beautiful space, your ungovernable American ether, is going bloody haywire. \u2014 James Parker, The Atlantic , 17 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"At their most cynical, sanctions are a deliberate attempt to trigger an ungovernable humanitarian crisis, which will undermine Taliban authority. \u2014 Ryan Cooper, The Week , 31 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"But America itself also looks increasingly ungovernable . \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 15 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Ioannis Capodistrias became the first governor of an independent Greece, only to be assassinated in 1831 by ungovernable Maniots outside a church in Nafplion. \u2014 David Mason, WSJ , 10 Dec. 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1673, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8g\u0259-v\u0259r-n\u0259-b\u0259l"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for ungovernable unruly , ungovernable , intractable , refractory , recalcitrant , willful , headstrong mean not submissive to government or control. unruly implies lack of discipline or incapacity for discipline and often connotes waywardness or turbulence of behavior. unruly children ungovernable implies either an escape from control or guidance or a state of being unsubdued and incapable of controlling oneself or being controlled by others. ungovernable rage intractable suggests stubborn resistance to guidance or control. intractable opponents of the hazardous-waste dump refractory stresses resistance to attempts to manage or to mold. special schools for refractory children recalcitrant suggests determined resistance to or defiance of authority. acts of sabotage by a recalcitrant populace willful implies an obstinate determination to have one's own way. a willful disregard for the rights of others headstrong suggests self-will impatient of restraint, advice, or suggestion. a headstrong young cavalry officer",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"balky",
|
|
"contrary",
|
|
"contumacious",
|
|
"defiant",
|
|
"disobedient",
|
|
"froward",
|
|
"incompliant",
|
|
"insubordinate",
|
|
"intractable",
|
|
"obstreperous",
|
|
"rebel",
|
|
"rebellious",
|
|
"recalcitrant",
|
|
"recusant",
|
|
"refractory",
|
|
"restive",
|
|
"unruly",
|
|
"untoward",
|
|
"wayward",
|
|
"willful",
|
|
"wilful"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-110814",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"ungraceful":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"graceful",
|
|
"suave",
|
|
"urbane"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": lacking grace : not graceful":[
|
|
"ungraceful movements",
|
|
"an ungraceful dancer"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Occasionally, the dialogue is ungraceful in connecting the lines between past and present. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Extra cuddles for the extremely ungraceful Flounder. \u2014 Brenna Murphy, New York Times , 4 Jan. 2021",
|
|
"At best, President Donald Trump's exit from the White House is ungraceful . \u2014 Arkansas Online , 29 Nov. 2020",
|
|
"Next spring will mark six years since Northland mall in Southfield closed for good after a long and ungraceful decline. \u2014 Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press , 19 Nov. 2020",
|
|
"Given that much time and his history of health, Cano could\u2019ve endured even a fairly ungraceful decline and reached 3,000 hits and 400 home runs and shoo-in Hall of Fame status by his age-40 season when his deal runs up. \u2014 Ted Berg, For The Win , 15 May 2018",
|
|
"Babcock launched himself in the crowd and immediately numerous audience members\u2014including yours truly\u2014took an ungraceful tumble. \u2014 Efrain Dorado, RedEye Chicago , 7 Aug. 2017",
|
|
"Still, the ungraceful exit was disconcerting to Woods. \u2014 Mike Tierney, New York Times , 17 Feb. 2018",
|
|
"Even the most adept Olympic swimmer is wholly ungraceful in the water. \u2014 Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal , 29 July 2017"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1652, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8gr\u0101s-f\u0259l"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"awkward",
|
|
"clumsy",
|
|
"gauche",
|
|
"graceless",
|
|
"inelegant",
|
|
"rough-hewn",
|
|
"rustic",
|
|
"rustical",
|
|
"stiff",
|
|
"stilted",
|
|
"uncomfortable",
|
|
"uneasy",
|
|
"wooden"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-175347",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"ungracious":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"civil",
|
|
"considerate",
|
|
"courteous",
|
|
"genteel",
|
|
"gracious",
|
|
"mannerly",
|
|
"polite",
|
|
"thoughtful",
|
|
"well-bred"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": not courteous : rude":[
|
|
"ungracious treatment"
|
|
],
|
|
": not pleasing : disagreeable":[
|
|
"an ungracious task"
|
|
],
|
|
": wicked":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"There's no need to be ungracious about it.",
|
|
"we were taken aback by our aunt's ungracious reply to the invitation we had sent her",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Such compliments are common, perhaps because the giver does not realize how ungracious comparisons are. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Apr. 2022",
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"Schoenberg\u2019s Suite, Op. 25, an example of his early supposedly ungracious 12-tone style, is just the thing to keep traditional audiences away. \u2014 Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times , 8 Apr. 2022",
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"Asking for gas money for a party that your daughter was attending seems to Miss Manners a bit miserly and ungracious . \u2014 Washington Post , 28 June 2021",
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"To bring up other human needs, of emotional or intellectual fulfilment beyond a roof to sleep under, is to be ungracious in the eyes of the media and the privileged public. \u2014 Guy Lodge, Variety , 28 Aug. 2021",
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"None of this erases the everyday problem of unheld doors, forgotten thank yous, and ungracious birthday party guests. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 23 Oct. 2019",
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"But there remains a somewhat ungracious tenor to this administration that could be excised, sloughed like something outgrown, with no loss of counter-fire. \u2014 Conrad Black, National Review , 11 Sep. 2019",
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"Otherwise, Miss Manners agrees that alerting them to an event that will cause only annoyance is ungracious . \u2014 Judith Martin, Washington Post , 6 Sep. 2019",
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"Otherwise, Miss Manners agrees that alerting them to an event that will only cause annoyance is ungracious . \u2014 Judith Martin, The Mercury News , 6 Sep. 2019"
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"we were taken aback by our aunt's ungracious reply to the invitation we had sent her",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Such compliments are common, perhaps because the giver does not realize how ungracious comparisons are. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Apr. 2022",
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"Schoenberg\u2019s Suite, Op. 25, an example of his early supposedly ungracious 12-tone style, is just the thing to keep traditional audiences away. \u2014 Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times , 8 Apr. 2022",
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"Asking for gas money for a party that your daughter was attending seems to Miss Manners a bit miserly and ungracious . \u2014 Washington Post , 28 June 2021",
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"To bring up other human needs, of emotional or intellectual fulfilment beyond a roof to sleep under, is to be ungracious in the eyes of the media and the privileged public. \u2014 Guy Lodge, Variety , 28 Aug. 2021",
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"None of this erases the everyday problem of unheld doors, forgotten thank yous, and ungracious birthday party guests. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 23 Oct. 2019",
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"But there remains a somewhat ungracious tenor to this administration that could be excised, sloughed like something outgrown, with no loss of counter-fire. \u2014 Conrad Black, National Review , 11 Sep. 2019",
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"Otherwise, Miss Manners agrees that alerting them to an event that will cause only annoyance is ungracious . \u2014 Judith Martin, Washington Post , 6 Sep. 2019",
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"Otherwise, Miss Manners agrees that alerting them to an event that will only cause annoyance is ungracious . \u2014 Judith Martin, The Mercury News , 6 Sep. 2019"
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"\u2014 Daniel Scott Smith"
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],
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": not leveled or smoothed to a horizontal surface or a gradual slope":[
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"\u2026 highways over whose rock-strewn, ungraded surfaces increasing numbers of wagons and carts rumbled and clattered \u2026",
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"\u2014 Bernard Bailyn"
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]
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"There were two ungraded stakes restricted to California breds: Smuggler\u2019s Run ($4.00) won the 6\u00bd-furlong $150,000 Echo Eddie Stakes for 3-year-olds for Richard Baltas and Joe Bravo. \u2014 John Cherwaspecial Contributor, Los Angeles Times , 9 Apr. 2022",
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"The holiday weekend\u2019s schedule of eight stakes races begins today with the ungraded Generous Portion Stakes. \u2014 Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 Sep. 2021",
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"This weekend: Two ungraded stakes races for older fillies and mares on the turf topped by Sunday\u2019s Solana Beach Stakes at a mile. \u2014 Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 Aug. 2021",
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"The sixth day of the summer season will have two ungraded stakes today \u2014 the $150,000 California Dreamin\u2019 Stakes (11/16-miles on the turf for older Cal-breds) and the $80,000 Daisycutter Handicap (5 furlongs on the turf for older fillies and mares). \u2014 Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 July 2021",
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"An ungraded membership with at-home workouts and personal training will be around $70 a month. \u2014 Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 29 June 2021",
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"Graham was shocked by this state of affairs, and by the gulf in value between graded and ungraded cards. \u2014 Will Bedingfield, Wired , 13 June 2021",
|
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"The 6-year-old mare has won six-of-26 lifetime, including an ungraded stakes three back. \u2014 John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times , 9 May 2021",
|
|
"Gregorian Chant is coming off a win in the Clocker Corner, an ungraded stakes. \u2014 John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times , 13 Mar. 2021"
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"an ungrammatical sentence",
|
|
"In another of his ipse dixit pronouncements, Webster condemned the adverbial use of adjectives in phrases like extreme cold, exceeding fine, and indifferent well as \"very improper and ungrammatical .\"",
|
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"\u2014 Edward Finegan",
|
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"Surprisingly, even though it sounds ungrammatical , can't seem is accepted as a standard idiom that is no less awkward than saying \"seems to be unable,\" \u2026",
|
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"\u2014 HarperCollins Publishers",
|
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"Idioms are forms of expression approved by usage, but often ungrammatical and illogical.",
|
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"\u2014 Simeon Potter"
|
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]
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},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"the r\u00e9sum\u00e9 and its ungrammatical cover letter were summarily thrown in the trash",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"That could be useful for conversations where telegraphic, ungrammatical messages would come off as impolite. \u2014 Tom Simonite, Wired , 18 Oct. 2020",
|
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"But to many Americans, the pronouns are ungrammatical and confusing. \u2014 Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post , 16 Aug. 2019",
|
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"The ungrammatical use of ellipses to convey a pause or . . . \u2014 Lynda Robinson, Washington Post , 15 May 2018",
|
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"None of that here in the pretentious, inauthentic speech of an ungrammatical kid. \u2014 Toby Zinman, Philly.com , 11 June 2018",
|
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"Yes, its ungrammatical slogan does not exactly roll off the tongue. \u2014 Mark Lisanti, Vanities , 11 May 2018",
|
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"That's when Zaydel fired back in ungrammatical English. \u2014 Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press , 17 Oct. 2017",
|
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"The Heart of Texas Facebook page is full of stilted, ungrammatical English. \u2014 Tim Lister And Clare Sebastian, CNN , 5 Oct. 2017"
|
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|
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"fathomable",
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"understandable"
|
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"definitions":{},
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"The scope of something inexpressible, a mammoth, ungraspable intimation, had overtaken him. \u2014 Greg Jackson, The New Yorker , 22 Nov. 2021",
|
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"The ecological relationships that Darwin brings to our attention tell us of a world of bonds much more complex and ungraspable than had ever previously been supposed. \u2014 Longreads , 23 Mar. 2021",
|
|
"The Internet of Things is an ungraspable future, particularly when the fact of a future for Earth at all sometimes sounds implausible. \u2014 Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic , 14 May 2020",
|
|
"The river itself was a standard-issue metaphor of time\u2019s ungraspable flux and constancy. \u2014 Wells Tower, Outside Online , 11 July 2018",
|
|
"The new volume, the first in English to bring together all seven of Machado\u2019s story collections, illustrates both the refined pleasures and the somewhat ungraspable nature of his art. \u2014 Sam Sacks, WSJ , 28 June 2018",
|
|
"The cascade of flickering, sometimes unreadable images is so unremitting, despite long stretches of an utterly blank screen, as to be nearly ungraspable . \u2014 New York Times , 24 May 2018",
|
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"Calder was aiming to grasp the ungraspable , to describe the indescribable. \u2014 Jed Perl, Smithsonian , 30 Sep. 2017"
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"1741, in the meaning defined above":""
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],
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"incomprehensible",
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],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-221928",
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|
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|
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|
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"\u2014 Philip Wheelwright"
|
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|
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|
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]
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},
|
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|
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"antonyms":[
|
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"appreciated"
|
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],
|
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|
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": showing no gratitude : making a poor return":[
|
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"an ungrateful child"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[
|
|
"I don't mean to seem ungrateful .",
|
|
"the park's custodial staff has the ungrateful job of cleaning up after the Independence Day party is over",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Wool, 67, mostly demurs on questions about the effect market machinations can have on an artist\u2019s life and work, saying that addressing it inevitably risks making one sound disingenuously ungrateful for success. \u2014 New York Times , 30 May 2022",
|
|
"Is that possible without looking ungrateful for all of her help",
|
|
"After creative director Nigel\u2019s blistering lecture about her seemingly ungrateful attitude, Andy literally pulls herself up by her Chanel bootstraps and gets to work, testing her personal relationships in the process. \u2014 Sophie Goulopoulos, Harper's BAZAAR , 25 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Central to much of this is the notion that Gu is somehow ungrateful for what the United States has given her. \u2014 Lincoln Mitchell, CNN , 8 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"In the 45-second video, Paskell reenacts giving an ungrateful client a blowout and a pair of false eyelashes while recounting the client's deluge of complaints. \u2014 Sara Miranda, Allure , 31 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Jeanne Phillips, also known as Dear Abby, covered a lot of problems in 2021, from ungrateful kids to awkward propositions, to ongoing concerns over COVID-19. \u2014 oregonlive , 28 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Washington Park neighborhood was torched by some ungrateful wretch just hours after a crowd of about 200 kids and adults lit the tree and enjoyed a night of caroling in the grassy median at Martin Luther King Drive and Garfield Boulevard. \u2014 Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com , 10 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"If thankless children are sharper than a serpent\u2019s tooth, as King Lear thought, our skin can be punctured, too, by ungrateful parents. \u2014 New York Times , 9 Nov. 2021"
|
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"1533, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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]
|
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|
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|
|
"I don't mean to seem ungrateful .",
|
|
"the park's custodial staff has the ungrateful job of cleaning up after the Independence Day party is over",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Wool, 67, mostly demurs on questions about the effect market machinations can have on an artist\u2019s life and work, saying that addressing it inevitably risks making one sound disingenuously ungrateful for success. \u2014 New York Times , 30 May 2022",
|
|
"Is that possible without looking ungrateful for all of her help",
|
|
"After creative director Nigel\u2019s blistering lecture about her seemingly ungrateful attitude, Andy literally pulls herself up by her Chanel bootstraps and gets to work, testing her personal relationships in the process. \u2014 Sophie Goulopoulos, Harper's BAZAAR , 25 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Central to much of this is the notion that Gu is somehow ungrateful for what the United States has given her. \u2014 Lincoln Mitchell, CNN , 8 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"In the 45-second video, Paskell reenacts giving an ungrateful client a blowout and a pair of false eyelashes while recounting the client's deluge of complaints. \u2014 Sara Miranda, Allure , 31 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Jeanne Phillips, also known as Dear Abby, covered a lot of problems in 2021, from ungrateful kids to awkward propositions, to ongoing concerns over COVID-19. \u2014 oregonlive , 28 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Washington Park neighborhood was torched by some ungrateful wretch just hours after a crowd of about 200 kids and adults lit the tree and enjoyed a night of caroling in the grassy median at Martin Luther King Drive and Garfield Boulevard. \u2014 Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com , 10 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"If thankless children are sharper than a serpent\u2019s tooth, as King Lear thought, our skin can be punctured, too, by ungrateful parents. \u2014 New York Times , 9 Nov. 2021"
|
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"1533, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"uncandid",
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"unforthcoming"
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"I let the secret about the surprise party spill out in an unguarded moment .",
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"the swimming coach quickly regretted his unguarded comments about the young swimmer's limitations",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Before that, people paid small fees to mom-and-pop operators to get them across a largely unguarded border. \u2014 Eric Gay And Elliot Spagat, Chicago Tribune , 28 June 2022",
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"Before that, people paid small fees to mom-and-pop operators to get them across a largely unguarded border. \u2014 Eric Gray And Elliot Spagat, Anchorage Daily News , 28 June 2022",
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"Before that, people paid small fees to mom-and-pop operators to get them across a largely unguarded border. \u2014 Eric Gay And Elliot Spagat, Sun Sentinel , 27 June 2022",
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"Before that, people paid small fees to mom-and-pop operators to get them across a largely unguarded border. \u2014 Eric Gay And Elliot Spagat, Chron , 27 June 2022",
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"Lifeguards are frustratingly scarce this year, leaving tens of thousands of the nation\u2019s pools closed and beaches unguarded , and the public distanced from a stalwart of the American summer. \u2014 New York Times , 9 June 2022",
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"Lifeguards are frustratingly scarce this year, leaving tens of thousands of the nation\u2019s pools closed and beaches unguarded , and the public distanced from a stalwart of the American summer. \u2014 Julie Bosman, BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2022",
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"Each was a quotidian tale in four narrative beats \u2014 90-minute renderings in spare lines, in notebooks that heighten the sense of experiencing someone\u2019s unguarded honesty. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Apr. 2022",
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"Personal engagement and observations help map internal influencers and politics and gather much more detailed and unguarded insight into the problems to solve and hurdles to doing so. \u2014 Ed Marsh, Forbes , 18 Apr. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Before that, people paid small fees to mom-and-pop operators to get them across a largely unguarded border. \u2014 Eric Gay And Elliot Spagat, Chicago Tribune , 28 June 2022",
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"Before that, people paid small fees to mom-and-pop operators to get them across a largely unguarded border. \u2014 Eric Gray And Elliot Spagat, Anchorage Daily News , 28 June 2022",
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"Before that, people paid small fees to mom-and-pop operators to get them across a largely unguarded border. \u2014 Eric Gay And Elliot Spagat, Sun Sentinel , 27 June 2022",
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"Before that, people paid small fees to mom-and-pop operators to get them across a largely unguarded border. \u2014 Eric Gay And Elliot Spagat, Chron , 27 June 2022",
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"Lifeguards are frustratingly scarce this year, leaving tens of thousands of the nation\u2019s pools closed and beaches unguarded , and the public distanced from a stalwart of the American summer. \u2014 New York Times , 9 June 2022",
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"Lifeguards are frustratingly scarce this year, leaving tens of thousands of the nation\u2019s pools closed and beaches unguarded , and the public distanced from a stalwart of the American summer. \u2014 Julie Bosman, BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2022",
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"Each was a quotidian tale in four narrative beats \u2014 90-minute renderings in spare lines, in notebooks that heighten the sense of experiencing someone\u2019s unguarded honesty. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Apr. 2022",
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"Personal engagement and observations help map internal influencers and politics and gather much more detailed and unguarded insight into the problems to solve and hurdles to doing so. \u2014 Ed Marsh, Forbes , 18 Apr. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
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"And fewer individuals of several ungulate species were found to be migrating. \u2014 Robin Lloyd, Scientific American , 7 Apr. 2022",
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"The kinds of journeys made by ungulate species likely reflect variations in the predictability of food sources and weather patterns, Kauffman says. \u2014 Robin Lloyd, Scientific American , 7 Apr. 2022",
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"For years, wildlife agencies across the country have taken the model used to manage ungulate species like deer, elk and moose and applied it to carnivores. \u2014 Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic , 29 Jan. 2022",
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"How about the final final straw, the one that could have filled a whole barn with ungulate fodder bound up in bales eight feet high",
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"Though some research has found cattle also prefer to graze alongside prairie dogs, the rodent- ungulate relationship is fickle in ways that aren\u2019t fully understood. \u2014 Ula Chrobak, Popular Science , 5 Mar. 2021",
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"Since the department implemented game codes in 1984, ungulate populations on the Wind River Indian Reservation have soared. \u2014 Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life , 9 Nov. 2020",
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"These management practices have demonstrated low success rates for grizzly hunters, with positive effects on the ungulate populations and very strong bear populations. \u2014 Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life , 22 June 2020",
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"For example, rodent and ungulate species may transmit more viruses to us, but there are a lot of species in these groups. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 22 Apr. 2020",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Horse and saddle leather, wet Labrador retriever and rutting male ungulates are smells that seem never to stop drifting through my mind, just below the surface of consciousness. \u2014 Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News , 16 May 2020",
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"On their own, the results would seem to point to the special reservoir model, as hoofed ungulates (like our agricultural animals) and rodents collectively accounted for half the viruses that had transitioned to human hosts. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 22 Apr. 2020",
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"The bone of a steppe bison, a large Arctic ungulate that went extinct about 10,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, rests in the hard peat. \u2014 Madeline Ostrander, Smithsonian Magazine , 4 May 2020",
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"For Royalton Farms, the omnipresent ungulates eventually threatened the survival of the business. \u2014 cleveland , 30 Apr. 2020",
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"This unusual little ungulate was born at the Chyulu Hills National Park in Kenya and is the hybrid of a zebra and a donkey (hence the portmanteau). \u2014 Aj Willingham, CNN , 18 Apr. 2020",
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"The ungulates are found starting in southwest Ethiopia and through Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, and Malawi, with patchier distribution through Angola, Mozambique, and Swaziland. \u2014 Kylie Mohr, National Geographic , 9 Nov. 2019",
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"Unlike ungulates , which tend to grow their biggest antlers between the ages of 5 and 7, pronghorns tend to maximize their horn growth between ages 3 and 4. \u2014 Andrew Mckean, Outdoor Life , 26 Mar. 2020",
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"Surveyors walked the riparian areas and adjacent uplands, photographing and geolocating degradation from cattle and other ungulates . \u2014 Erin Stone, azcentral , 17 Mar. 2020"
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"Unlike ungulates , which tend to grow their biggest antlers between the ages of 5 and 7, pronghorns tend to maximize their horn growth between ages 3 and 4. \u2014 Andrew Mckean, Outdoor Life , 26 Mar. 2020",
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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],
|
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"ungathered crops"
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"\u02c8\u0259\u014b-gw\u0259nt",
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"\u02c8\u0259\u014b-gw\u0259nt also \u02c8\u0259n-j\u0259nt",
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"\u02c8\u0259n-",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"But the institutional gangrene to which Levin draws attention seems to me to go beyond what the unguents in our current chrismatories can heal. \u2014 Michael Knox Beran, National Review , 6 Feb. 2020",
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"The transition from handset juggernaut to invisible technological unguent was not without casualties. \u2014 Natasha Frost, Quartz , 29 Oct. 2019",
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"It should be noted that this soothing unguent is under some fire. \u2014 Ross Kenneth Urken, Town & Country , 26 Sep. 2017"
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},
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"unguitractor":{
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": a sclerite of the insect pretarsus that is partially invaginated within the tarsus":[]
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},
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"-w\u0259\u02cctrakt\u0259(r)"
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},
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"peninsula in northern Quebec, Canada, between Hudson Bay and Ungava Bay":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-020817"
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},
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"ungartered":{
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],
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"\u2014 Shakespeare"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\"+"
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-044808"
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}
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