Definitions

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  • adjective Not having been flogged (beaten).

Etymologies

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un- +‎ flogged

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Examples

  • A child flogged left-handedly had better be left unflogged.

    Perfect Infinitive. 1908

  • He would not even condescend to remonstrate with the boy who was meanly allowing him to suffer, and betrayed his anguish in the matter so little that I doubt if the real culprit (who never was a week unflogged himself) had any idea what the punishment was to poor Leo.

    A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

  • She did her best in the way of flogging him while an infant -- for duties to her well -- regulated mind were always pleasures, and babies, like tough steaks, or the modern Greek olive trees, are invariably the better for beating -- but, poor woman! she had the misfortune to be left-handed, and a child flogged left-handedly had better be left unflogged.

    The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 Edgar Allan Poe 1829

  • Now, mon gars, to your duty! "and to my amazement I was alive, unflogged, and believed.

    Carette of Sark John Oxenham 1896

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