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unhandled

[ uhn-han-dld ]

adjective

  1. not handled; handle; not touched.
  2. (of animals) untamed; unbroken; untrained.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of unhandled1

First recorded in 1550–60; un- 1 + handled

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Example Sentences

I would to God that I, too, possessed the tender irritableness of unhandled sensibility.

The tea-cups, saucered and lidded, but unhandled, stood in a row before the polished brass hot-water kettle.

It will take a power that some of us have not known to let that glass go untouched, and that quieting drug untasted and unhandled.

It seems strange that the great store of treasure which he opened to us should have been unhandled and unknown so long.

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