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  • adjective Not categorical.

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un- +‎ categorical

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Examples

  • That the answer wasn't an immediate and uncategorical NO says it all.

    CT-SEN: Will Lieberman Rule Out Accepting GOP Line? 2009

  • "After Obama's uncategorical repudiation yesterday of the man who presided at his wedding and the baptism of his daughters, voters and other political observers will inevitably wonder what took so long -- and how Obama could have misjudged someone to whom he was very close," Peter Canellos writes in The Boston Globe.

    Fox Poll: Hillary Doing Better Than Obama Against McCain With Independents 2009

  • Perhaps I am as I have always assumed, simply uncategorical.

    Am I a Geek? shipping troll 2008

  • Perhaps I am as I have always assumed, simply uncategorical.

    Archive 2008-12-01 shipping troll 2008

  • (And John McCain used to be uncategorical in his statements that he wasn't running either, so you know how valid those claims are.)

    May 2006 2006

  • But this is about as categorical -- as uncategorical as you can get, coming from the Igor Ivanov, the foreign minister -- Paula.

    CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2003 2003

  • But if you look at the rest of much of the Arab world, you're probably not going to get uncategorical statements like that.

    CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2001 2001

  • But if you look at the rest of much of the Arab world, you're probably not going to get uncategorical statements like that.

    CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2001 2001

  • In one of his essays Eliot himself has advanced, as a purely objective and quite uncategorical assumption, that poets in our present civilization have to be difficult to approach.

    Nobel Prize in Literature 1948 - Presentation Speech 1948

  • So far did the lessening point recede in the narrowing distance, that the two ladies sat down on the sand, and fell a-talking about Florimel's most uncategorical groom, as Clementina, herself the most uncategorical of women, to use her own scarcely justifiable epithet, called him.

    The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864

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