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- adjective
Inadequately furnished ; lacking infurniture .
Etymologies
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Examples
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“It's a symbol, a necessity and a triumph, a part of the cultural patrimony so tightly woven into the fabric of Texas life that Texans themselves do not even remark on it until they are presented with the gray-tinged, underfurnished, suspiciously geometric hamburger that the rest of America lives with.”
Archive 2007-01-01 Homesick Texan 2007
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“It's a symbol, a necessity and a triumph, a part of the cultural patrimony so tightly woven into the fabric of Texas life that Texans themselves do not even remark on it until they are presented with the gray-tinged, underfurnished, suspiciously geometric hamburger that the rest of America lives with.”
Who cares where the burger was born? | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007
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The apron and cloth coat and underfurnished flat and food smells in the hallway.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The apron and cloth coat and underfurnished flat and food smells in the hallway.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The apron and cloth coat and underfurnished flat and food smells in the hallway.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The room was expensively underfurnished: stiff sofas upholstered in dull mushroom damask; a pair of Queen Anne chairs similarly covered; spindly-legged Chippendale tables redolent of lemon oil.
Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987
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The room was expensively underfurnished: stiff sofas upholstered in dull mushroom damask; a pair of Queen Anne chairs similarly covered; spindly-legged Chippendale tables redolent of lemon oil.
Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987
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The room was expensively underfurnished: stiff sofas upholstered in dull mushroom damask; a pair of Queen Anne chairs similarly covered; spindly-legged Chippendale tables redolent of lemon oil.
Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987
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He'd invited me to join him here, old house, underfurnished, somewhere south of nowhere in the Sonoran Desert or maybe it was the Mojave Desert or another desert altogether.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Plus, I like simple bedroom decor, but in the living room it is harder for me to find the balance of it being uncluttered and having free space but also not being boring or underfurnished.
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