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unfledged
/ ʌnˈflɛdʒd /
adjective
- (of a young bird) not having developed adult feathers
- immature and undeveloped
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Word History and Origins
Origin of unfledged1
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Example Sentences
This we did, and there in the nest it stayed for some days, its mate feeding it with flies as though it were still unfledged.
Her lawyer was merely an unfledged practitioner assigned to her defense as a formality of the court.
For the first year of the three she opened her social circuit as comprehensively as an unfledged barrister.
It was at Lutzen, a bloody fight, and no bad initiation for an unfledged soldier.
He is no longer a boy, but an unfledged, undeveloped man—a creature, half of the past and half of the future.
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