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- adjective Not
coveted .
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Examples
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And he could not believe, he could not convince himself, that such a woman, one alone in a camp full of men, could continue to the end unviolated, uncoveted.
His Disposition 2010
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Only the pathetic derelicts of society had nothing to leave, however meagre, however uncoveted to sophisticated eyes.
She Closed Her Eyes 2010
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The votes are in, and Comcast has won Consumerist's uncoveted "Worst Company in America" award.
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Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former spin doctor, wants to win the uncoveted prize and change British attitudes to sex
Alastair Campbell: why I want to win the Bad Sex award Vanessa Thorpe 2010
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This year's uncoveted winner, the Philishave-shaped Strata tower in south London, pilloried for its "breakfast-extracting ugliness" and "pungent aroma of boy-musk" is now being sniggered at from Ukraine to New Zealand.
Diary 2010
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Andrew Sullivan dishes Melanie Phillips one of his uncoveted Hewitt Awards given out for "the most egregious attempts to label Barack Obama as un-American, alien, treasonous, and far out of the mainstream of American life and politics."
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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But, uncoveted by the contractor's lawless eye, untouched by the builder's desecrating hand,
Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance H. Lovett Cameron
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I lay like a gem in a silken sea Unseen, uncoveted, unguessed Till scented winds that waft afar Bore word o 'the warm delights there are Where ground-swells sing by Zanzibar Long rhapsodies of rest.
The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920
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They took it in turns, each slipping by chance into that onerous position, supported but uncoveted by the other.
A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood 1910
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Garth, from his uncoveted post of honour at Mrs Mayhew's left hand, noted them also; but with less of understanding.
The Great Amulet Maud Diver 1906
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