unangled

It was an obvious convergence, this devotion of all the traits which composed, so Adrian imagined, the despicable soul that lay beneath his uncle's unangled exterior: undeviating self-indulgence; secrecy; utter selfishness -- he was selfish even to the woman he was supposed to love; that is, if he was capable of loving any one but himself -- a bland hypocrisy; an unthinking conformation to the dictates of an unthinking world.

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Various

Women feared Talbot Bulstrode; manoeuvring mothers shrank abashed from the cold light of those watchful gray eyes; daughters to marry blushed and trembled, and felt their pretty affectations, their ballroom properties, drop away from them under the quiet gaze of the young officer, till, from fearing him, the lovely flutterers grew to shun and dislike him, and to leave Bulstrode Castle and the Bulstrode fortune unangled for in the great matrimonial fisheries.

Aurora Floyd. A Novel Mary Elizabeth 1863