Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not bid; unbidden.
- Without having said prayers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not bidden; not commanded.
- adjective Uninvited.
- adjective obsolete Being without a prayer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
unbidden , uninvited. - adjective bridge Which have not been
bid for. - verb To
undo the process ofbidding ; to cancel abid .
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Examples
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[96] A great deal of nonsense has been written to account for the word unbid, in this line.
The Iliad of Homer 2003
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Why not prosecute for lying about the war, the yellowcake uranium, outing the CIA agent, torture, illegal wiretapping, and allowing your friends and buddies (Cheney, Halliburton) to rape the treasury with unbid contracts, etc.
At Last, Bernstein Meets Deep Throat - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Montgomery Advertiser – Riley agrees to pay attorneys in suit over unbid computer contract
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The many people that have left the Republican Party did so because unbid contracts are NOT consistent with conservative behavior, that changing US Constitution via wiretapping or torture is not strict Constructionism of US Constitution.
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WHY is NOTHING being said about the horror of Bush's unbid contracts in Iraq?
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I'm certain the unbid contractors of the loyal Bushite brigade just love giving to McBush the II, who is everything Bush ever was to unbid contractors, a friend, confident, a criminal con-conspirator.
McCain's Money Starts Flowing -- He Raises $22 Million In May 2009
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The definition of pork is giving the taxpayer money back to taxpayers instead of simply your friends in the way Bush does it and now John McCain who is only GIVING TAXPAYER money to unbid contractors, his friends - and McCain can't get more Bush like than that.
McCain's Money Starts Flowing -- He Raises $22 Million In May 2009
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There is nothing conservative about unbid contracts, but most certainly there is everything criminal about it.
McCain's Money Starts Flowing -- He Raises $22 Million In May 2009
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He ordered a horse to be saddled; and, to lose no time by messages, the tardiness of which he had already experienced with this gentleman, he went himself to his apartment, and after several vain rappings at his door, entered the room unbid, saying – 'Good Dr. Orkborne, unless you are dead, which God forbid!
Camilla 2008
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She screamed the whole time she was undressing; and Edgar, convinced she had received some injury, galloped off, unbid, for a surgeon: but what was the horror of Sir Hugh, upon hearing him pronounce, that her left shoulder was put out, and that one of her knees was dislocated!
Camilla 2008
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