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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Not curbed, in any sense of that word.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Unlimited; unrestricted.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. not restrained or controlled

Etymologies

  1. un- +‎ curbed (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Because he had not become a boazer, he was leaving Repton uncorrupted and with his rebellious nature uncurbed.”

    Simon & Schuster: Storyteller

  • “Free enterprise did not bring us the current economic disaster, although free enterprise has become a favorite whipping post of many left leaning expectants of an uncurbed welfare state, and of the current administration.”

    Obama's Not So Free Money

  • “But sometimes, usually at night, the president became someone else -- call him "Mr. Bill" -- a doughy, needy mass of uncurbed appetites and fits of irrationality.”

    Newsweek: The Two Mr. Clintons

  • “If the American public's insatiable appetite for automobiles continues, uncurbed by any sense of responsibility, someone must, like a parent with a selfish child, at least start slapping wrists.”

    The Speculist: Energy Storage: The Game Changer

  • “With the whole power of the government at its back, and with a Constitution so amended as to extend the amplest protection to the new-made citizen, it left him to the inhuman mercy of men whose uncurbed passions, whose deeds of lawlessness and defiance, pale into virtues the ferocity of Cossack warfare.”

    Simon & Schuster: Black and White

  • “The Depression was caused mainly by financial overspeculation left uncurbed by the Federal Reserve Board.”

    Forbes: Presiding Over Chaos

  • “Why is man so feeble, and weak, that he must tramp, tramp hundreds of miles to satisfy the doubts his impatient and uncurbed mind feels?”

    How I Found Livingstone

  • “His temper was so fierce and so uncurbed that no native dared even to tread on his shadow.”

    The Hawaiian Archipelago

  • “After some reflection he decided no, not greed, just an uncurbed determination to never again be poor.”

    Simon & Schuster: Heaven Lake

  • “Too many tendencies wrought in him uncurbed for his ideas to clothe themselves constantly in a suitable and harmonious dress.”

    Balzac

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