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  • adjective Not dulled; sharp or alert.

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un- +‎ dulled

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Examples

  • Their granaries were overflowing with plenitude; yet they wanted to keep the sharp famine-edge of their love undulled.

    WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010

  • This is a dazzling masterpiece that is as overwhelming and powerful today as the day it was made, its impact completely undulled by the passage of many decades.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Ed Howard 2008

  • This is a dazzling masterpiece that is as overwhelming and powerful today as the day it was made, its impact completely undulled by the passage of many decades.

    Films I Love #4: Ménilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1926) Ed Howard 2008

  • Their interviews, being thus difficult and rare, served not only for continual exercise of their self-control, but brought them together with their bodies healthy and vigorous, and their affections fresh and lively, unsated and undulled by easy access and long continuance with each other; while their partings were always early enough to leave behind unextinguished in each of them some remainder fire of longing and mutual delight.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • He couldn't even begin to explain it to himself; the view was too vivid to be real, like some forest rendition by a surrealistic painter, a primordial viewpoint of a world undulled by reality and human pollution.

    The Woods Out Back Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1993

  • All the 10 tracks sound as though they were recorded by a small group of musicians playing together at the same time, exploring material undulled by over-familiarity, mixed on to tape more or less as they stood.

    The Dream of the Blue Turtles 1985

  • He attaches his particular attentions to the Empress Theodora, who even here retains her quick wit, undulled by scruples.

    The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964

  • In order to keep his intellect undulled by the routine of his dreary work, Matthew Arnold was wont to write a few lines of poetry each day.

    The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology Arthur E. P. B. Weigall

  • In all directions stood objects gleaming with gold undulled by a speck of dust, and one looked from one article to another with the feeling that the entire human conception of Time was wrong.

    The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology Arthur E. P. B. Weigall

  • The desire to make the world he knew too well a better place than he found it is just as keen in the wit and humourist of thirty-nine; a desire, moreover, undulled by twenty years of vivacious living.

    Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

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