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  • adjective Without a mitten or mittens.

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mitten +‎ -less

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Examples

  • He caught them with the crooked fingers of his mittenless right hand, flung his legs up, found the cross ropes with his flailing boots, pulled off his left mitten with his teeth, and began clambering upward while hanging almost upside down on the inside of the inward-slanting lines.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • A moment later Cassie came running through the passway, capless and mittenless.

    The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

  • There were red mittenless hands and unbooted feet in low shoes that were not new.

    The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

  • I broke in, bare-headed, mittenless, and I'd froze some on the way down.

    Pardners Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • He dropped from the platform and fled out through the open door, capless and mittenless; out and on toward the village.

    Pardners Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • He did not know but that the lady might consider it a grave crime to be mittenless.

    Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 1908

  • The other dangled mittenless at her side; it was pink with cold, but on its third finger sparkled a new gold ring with a blue stone in it.

    Young Lucretia and Other Stories Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891

  • For all answer Blake received one quick, stinging slap in the face from that mittenless little right hand.

    A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier Charles King 1888

  • I think I'm going to make some of these (what are they? find out soon!) with crying, mittenless kittens on the front and these bemittened kittens on the back.

    T H E . T H R I F T Y . K N I T T E R 2010

  • Sure, there are hotdogs: two women could be seen here in just sweaters; someone held a cellphone to his ear with mittenless hands metal, brrr.

    NYT > Home Page By THE NEW YORK TIMES 2010

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