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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
uncontested
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An uncontested divorce, as Tom put it.
▪ But the rebels have exercised uncontested control here since 1997.
▪ During the period of the Stormont parliament, half the seats were uncontested.
▪ Evidently, cultural reproduction in this sense is not an automatic or uncontested process.
▪ If your son is to rule, he must be uncontested.
▪ The forfeiture proceedings take place before magistrates and are often uncontested.
▪ The length of each parliament was extended from three to seven-ears by an act of 1716, and many elections were uncontested.
▪ These claims have not gone uncontested.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
uncontested

1670s, from un- (1) "not" + contested.

Wiktionary
uncontested

a. Not contested or disputed; not made the object of competition.

WordNet
uncontested

adj. not disputed and not made the object of contention or competition; "uncontested authority" [ant: contested]

Usage examples of "uncontested".

She had been tempted to name Redeye as corespondent when she and Roger split, but since the divorce was uncontested, she resisted.

What is absolutely uncontested is this: Instead of going to Miami to retrieve Elian himself, Juan Miguel allowed a federal SWAT team armed with submachine guns to stage a military-style assault on his son in Miami.

Bozzarias, all mandated investigations into the death of my beloved Vomacht resulted in one uncontested conclusion: pump failure produced a kind of alien hyperglycemia that drove the Stroonians insane.

The town house recognized Agent-Principal Vai as one of those with the right of uncontested access, and let her come and go unchallenged in all the public and semi-private rooms.

On the related charge of distraint, where the distress is lawful it is well established that the distrainer is obliged to feed and care for the animal which stands uncontested in this action and only in the event of his negligence will he be held liable (Kelly v.

She had learned to expect the unexpected from this war, and surely an uncontested landing would be the most unexpected thing of all.

But still I should like them to be submitted to a final examination, in order to make their worth incontestable and uncontested.

One of his uncontested discoveries was the fragrant southern balsam, the Fraser fir, so characteristic of the high ranges of North Carolina and Tennessee, but it bears his name only because he scrambled to the top of Clingmans Dome just ahead of his keen rival Michaux.

SHERIFF ROB ROY was a legend in Sussex County and ran uncontested every election year.

P-Squad headquarters unitshaving grown complacent and arrogant during their long and uncontested rule over Jefferson's city streetshave been shaken out of their complacency.

In this world unsullied by political defilements and ennobled by habits of abnegation,[148] there is all that constitutes an organized and visible society, a hierarchy, not external and veneered, but moral and deep-seated, with uncontested titles, recognized superiorities, an accepted subordination, rights and duties stamped on all consciences, in brief, what has always been wanting in revolutionary institutions, the discipline of sentiments and emotions.