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  • adjective Not having been sprinkled.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ sprinkled

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Examples

  • Sprinkle a quarter cup of the almond-amaretti powder evenly over the pastry, leaving a 1.5-inch border unsprinkled.

    Alice Waters's Rhubarb Galette 2011

  • I've coaxed her back out from under the bed and we've made up providing the floor remains unsprinkled.

    Archive 2008-06-01 CC 2008

  • I've coaxed her back out from under the bed and we've made up providing the floor remains unsprinkled.

    I R Scary Lindsay Stewart 2008

  • The water will spread from the sprinkled ones to the unsprinkled, and they will not be too damp.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • The water will spread from the sprinkled ones to the unsprinkled, and they will not be too damp.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • The water will spread from the sprinkled ones to the unsprinkled, and they will not be too damp.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • The water will spread from the sprinkled ones to the unsprinkled, and they will not be too damp.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • For a time Sara had the shade of the great trees lining the sidewalks for protection; but as she left these wide avenues for the alleys of poverty, there was nothing but her umbrella between her and the scorching luminary, while mingled with the intensified heat were the dust and odors arising from unsprinkled and garbage-strewn streets.

    Sara, a Princess Fannie E. Newberry

  • My dear friends, do you choose whether, fronting eternity with an unforgiven burden of sin upon your shoulders and a conscience unsprinkled by the blood of Jesus

    Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • At that epoch the States 'commissioners, Barneveld himself at the head of them, had gone solemnly to congratulate King James on his accession, had scarcely been admitted to audience by king or minister, and had found themselves on great festivals unsprinkled with the holy water of the court, and of no more account than the crowd of citizens and spectators who thronged the streets, gazing with awe at the distant radiance of the throne.

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

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