Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the skin unbroken; sound; uninjured.
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Examples
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That had been a necessary ordeal, as had his starvation on the way to Catteni, but he had to look the part and whole-skinned and fat would not have been credible.
Freedoms Challenge McCaffrey, Anne 1998
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Wounded men were healed of the hurts gotten in the fray with the conspirators, and their whole-skinned neighbours had ceased to ask them how they did and envy them the marks of patriotic valour that they carried on their bodies.
Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan
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Regular patrol posts are established by the police on the housetops in times of trouble in these localities, but even then they do not escape whole-skinned, if, indeed, with their lives; neither does the gang.
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"However," observed Kinnison, "the enemy didn't get off whole-skinned.
The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 Henry C. Watson
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