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  • adjective Not wearing a glove; barehanded.

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Examples

  • He scrambled and pulled with his hands, the nails of his ungloved hand catching on the sharp imperfections of the ice, and he drug himself, another body's length to where the ice had opened up, to a black hole of water.

    Christmas Magic Caleb Stright 2011

  • The box could not have been heavy, as she managed it easily with ungloved hands that showed the ash and wrinkles of a very old trooper.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • The box could not have been heavy, as she managed it easily with ungloved hands that showed the ash and wrinkles of a very old trooper.

    colis - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • The box could not have been heavy, as she managed it easily with ungloved hands that showed the ash and wrinkles of a very old trooper.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • He rubbed and wiped, with the ungloved hand under his nose.

    Christmas Magic Caleb Stright 2011

  • He grabbed my hand to demonstrate, one of the few minutes my hand was ungloved and out of my pocket.

    Timing. « 2008

  • “Should you ever fly a gos, and it decides to go for your eyes, you can turn and shield your face with your ungloved hand.”

    Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

  • Surreptitiously I reach my ungloved right hand into the pocket of my jacket to part the lips of the baggie hidden there.

    Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

  • Those relying on changes in electrical resistance tend to have poorer resolution than is needed for modern applications, while those that rely on capacitance require an ungloved finger.

    Optical LCDs: Touchless Touch-Screens Could Be On The Horizon 2010

  • Those relying on changes in electrical resistance tend to have poorer resolution than is needed for modern applications, while those that rely on capacitance require an ungloved finger.

    Optical LCDs: Touchless Touch-Screens Could Be On The Horizon 2010

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