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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unspoiled
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She remained unspoiled by her success.
▪ With its largely unspoiled natural beauty, Vietnam is rapid becoming a destination for more and more foreign visitors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After that we found more dead birds, their beauty still unspoiled.
▪ All the natural grace in her now flowed through her body, unspoiled by her bursts of youthful energy.
▪ He had thought her too childish, too unspoiled.
▪ In an age of central heating and renovation Greystones presumably featured as a rare unspoiled habitat.
▪ Like many other people, I appreciate clean rivers and unspoiled forest lands; but all things are not equally important.
▪ There are very few new buildings so the village is largely unspoiled.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unspoiled

c.1500, "not plundered," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of spoil (v.). Meaning "not deteriorated" is attested from 1732. A verb unspoil is attested from c.1400, but it meant "despoil."

Wiktionary
unspoiled

a. Not spoiled or touched; pure.

WordNet
unspoiled
  1. adj. not left to spoil; "the meat is still good" [syn: good, unspoilt]

  2. not decayed or decomposed [syn: uncorrupted]

Usage examples of "unspoiled".

Rodent left the park buffered with thousands of unspoiled acres, to keep the charmless roadside schlock at bay.

Reaganism finished working its way through American society, such quaint notions as uninterrrupted family meals, commerce-free Sundays, unspoiled places, and unindebted self-reliance had almost completely disappeared.

In short, unspoiled by their coarse flattery, and, to all appearances, happy and care-free, she attended to the running of The Polka wholly unsmirched by her environment.

Then an appellate court ruled that the tournament violates the deed, as written by the Matheson family when it donated the unspoiled property half a century ago.

The California-based club had achieved a national reputation for skill and dedication in fights to preserve what remained of the natural unspoiled beauty of America.

There would be strong objections, Nim already knew, to transferring this scene to the unspoiled wilderness of Tunipah.

Cameron Clarke: I am here, as an ordinary humble citizen, to protest an ill-conceived, sordid and totally unneeded scheme which would desecrate the magnificent, unspoiled area of California known as Tunipah.

You could still, at that late stage in the war, come across unspoiled villages where the inhabitants seemed almost unaware that only a few kilometres distant fierce fighting had wiped out a whole community and half an army.

His uniform was still new and relatively unspoiled but the flesh was turning putrid on the bones.

Jarom felt their eyes upon him, and thought of himself as a trespasser in this unspoiled wilderness.

There it lay, unspoiled before them, the talisman for which they had come in search.

They said Rinpoche-La was the last truly unspoiled place on earth, a sort of terrestrial Nirvana where the inhabitants were free from the daily burden of human existence.

For all the talk of preserving unspoiled wilderness, few left the sheltered hives to see it.

Eddie followed him outside and they picked their way through the alleys and out onto the ill-defined path that led out through the fields to the wild unspoiled plain.

Like most primitive worlds, Pa-Liina had a certain brutal, unspoiled beauty.