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Virgin, United in Dulles manoeuvre
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unsullied
Word definitions for unsullied in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. spotlessly clean and fresh; "the unsullied snow of mountains"; "the unsullied splender of eternal youth"- Oscar Wilde of reputation; "his unsullied name"; "an untarnished reputation" [syn: stainless , unstained , untainted , untarnished ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of sully (v.).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ An unsullied safety record swelled pride in Concorde's technical achievement as the years passed. ▪ He was a prophet without honour and yet he had kept the purity of his belief unsullied . ▪ It results from a process of ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. not sullied.
Usage examples of unsullied.
He cultivated those habits of mind and body, and confined himself to the acquisition of those branches of knowledge, which, while they left his heavenly gift free and unsullied, would best subserve the exercise of it.
Each toe was perfect, undeformed by shoes and boots, its nail unmarked, unsullied by color or polish.
Clear, unmuddied gray, unsullied by underpainting, by impure pigments.
It should have been an awkward composition, and indeed one section of the painting remained unfinished, white ground unsullied by sketch or underpainting or the glazes and frotties of a finished portrait.
Such intrepid virtue, which had escaped pure and unsullied from the intrigues courts, the habits of business, and the arts of his profession, reflects more lustre on the memory of Papinian, than all his great employments, his numerous writings, and the superior reputation as a lawyer, which he has preserved through every age of the Roman jurisprudence.
Clear, unmuddied gray, unsullied by underpainting, by impure pigments.
It should have been an awkward composition, and indeed one section of the painting remained unfinished, white ground unsullied by sketch or underpainting or the glazes and frotties of a finished portrait.
He left no illusions, no part unsullied, nothing unetched by his masterful touch.
The poorest sample of humanity, the street arab, will pull the bell handle at every street door in bitter weather, and scramble up to write his name on the unsullied marble of a monument.
But you, at one-and-twenty, you, the soul of honor, with the unsullied conscience of youth, will ask me how a woman can bring herself to accept money in such a way?
She had submitted herself to years of mental torture not so much to be near Andrew, but to keep herself unsullied in the eyes of her children.
Her husband will expect her unsullied on their wedding night, and she will be.
You must pass from it to look back and recognize its unsullied purity.
The warrens of Kurald Galain and Kurald Emurlahn are no longer pure, unsullied by human presence.
Drake, and, at the sound of the famous fictional movie line echoing in the relevant air of this real place, they both laughed, the levels of self-consciousness attendant upon a contemporary journey like this were positively Piranesian in number and involution, the pertinent dialogue had already been spoken, the images already photographed, the unsullied, unscripted experience was practically extinct, and you were left to wander at best through a familiar maze of distorting mirrors -- unless somewhere up ahead the living coils of this river carried one down and out of the fun house.