unstinted
English
WOTD – 8 September 2011
Adjective
unstinted (comparative more unstinted, superlative most unstinted)
- Not constrained, not restrained, or not confined.
- 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, ch. 33:
- Mr. Coggan poured the liquor with unstinted liberality at the suffering Cain's circular mouth.
- 1892, Rudyard Kipling, Letters of Travel, ch. 1:
- Wherever we went there was the sun, lavish and unstinted.
- 1900, H. G. Wells, Love and Mr. Lewisham, ch. 31:
- You must have support and belief—unstinted support and belief.
- 1921, P. G. Wodehouse, Indiscretions of Archie, ch. 24:
- The music-publisher had been unstinted in his praise.
- 2005, Robert Hughes, "Art: American Renaissance Man," Time, 21 June:
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens . . .gave the crude, grabbing Republic its lessons in symbolic deportment and visual elocution, and won its unstinted gratitude.
- 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, ch. 33:
Synonyms
- (not constrained): unconstrained, unrestrained
Related terms
Translations
not constrained, not restrained, or not confined
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