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  • adjective without ceremony or formality

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Examples

  • The unceremonial end of Muanmmar Gaddafi gave a much-needed boost to millions of Syrians, who are fantasizing of the day when their dictator will be just a bad memory.

    Dr. Josef Olmert: Now Libya, But What About Syria? Dr. Josef Olmert 2011

  • The unceremonial end of Muanmmar Gaddafi gave a much-needed boost to millions of Syrians, who are fantasizing of the day when their dictator will be just a bad memory.

    Dr. Josef Olmert: Now Libya, But What About Syria? Dr. Josef Olmert 2011

  • The Mughal Emperor undertook an unceremonial journey on foot to accomplish his wish to reach Ajmer.

    Archive 2009-07-01 photographerno1 2009

  • The burial was unceremonial, attended by Charmian, Eliza and her son, a few of the ranch employees and old friends such as George Sterling.

    Wolf Dying: Page III 2004

  • Makoaba was reacting to his unceremonial dismissal as police commissioner by junior police officers last week.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Others were bravely trying to do the right thing by sitting down to a morning meal; but a number of these failed, some leaving quietly and deliberately, others rushing away in unceremonial haste.

    Story of Chester Lawrence Nephi Anderson 1894

  • They were unpolished and unceremonial, and he liked them all the more for that.

    From Boyhood to Manhood Life of Benjamin Franklin 1859

  • Sir Felix and Lady Benefold had proposed a walk into the gardens and grounds, our philanthropist thought it necessary to apologize for his unceremonial introduction of himself at

    Francis, the Philanthropist: an unfashionable tale 1786

  • Leach remains the most interesting, refreshing coach in the game but brought too much of his unceremonial exit from Lubbock on himself.

    statesman.com - Highschool 2010

  • Leach remains the most interesting, refreshing coach in the game but brought too much of his unceremonial exit from Lubbock on himself.

    statesman.com - Highschool 2010

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