Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not formal; informal.
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Examples
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Are there any unformal guidlines laid out that dictate exactly what constitutes as a spoiler and how they should be addressed?
Spoiler Alert: The Responsibility of Online Writers in a Hulu/DVR World | /Film 2009
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So, I hope this helps, it is just my unformal review of my Cyberdefender experience.
Mouse Print»Blog Archive » CyberDefender: Outperforms Costly Security Software? 2007
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Light hath a magnetick simulation and an attractive living power with the small fire here on earth, but yet it is unformal and incomprehensible, only it is found to be spiritual, invisible, insensible and intangible.
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Spirit perfect into the world by the Nutriment, therefore let that alone likewise; for man cannot make the Elements, but only the Creator, and remain by thy made Spirit which is already formal and unformal, tangible and intangible, and yet is presented visibly.
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Molly longed for the snugness of the home dining-room; nay, it is to be feared that, before the stately dinner at Hamley Hall came to an end, she even regretted the crowded chairs and tables, the hurry of eating, the quick unformal manner in which everybody seemed to finish their meal as fast as possible, and to return to the work they had left.
Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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The jirking and nibbling of their unformal huggermugger cometh nearer to sycophancy than to sincerity, and is sibber to appeaching hostility than fraternal charity, for just so they deal with us as the
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630
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Since it was an unformal visit they should have made the president feel as confortable as possible just so he can stay acessible to them for more important issues in the future …
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Indeed, when we consider the simple modes of life, which discarded the ideas of ceremony or etiquette; the retired and uniform style of living, which afforded few opportunities for any change in the domestic arrangements; and when we add to these a free, unrestrained, unformal, and natural style of intercommunion, which seems rather a national characteristic, we need not be surprised to find in quiet Scottish families a sort of intercourse with old domestics which can hardly be looked for at a time when habits are so changed, and where much of the quiet eccentricity belonging to us as a national characteristic is almost necessarily softened down or driven out.
Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874
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Sensible that a deed so unformal, and so little prepared, which violated Robert's right of promigeniture, might meet with great opposition, he trusted entirely for success to his own celerity; and having left St. Gervas while William was breathing his last, he arrived in England before intelligence of his father's death had reached that kingdom. [
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John David Hume 1743
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