Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not suspended; not hung.
  • Not hanged; unhanged.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of a person not (yet) executed by hanging
  • adjective of a painting not selected for exhibition
  • adjective of game cooked without being hung to mature

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Examples

  • Other than the fact that it makes me feel like the biggest rogue unhung?

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • Other than the fact that it makes me feel like the biggest rogue unhung?

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • When Jeff finished up there, the bathmat would be all wet, towels left unhung.

    I slept with Joey Ramone Mickey Leigh 2009

  • When Jeff finished up there, the bathmat would be all wet, towels left unhung.

    I slept with Joey Ramone Mickey Leigh 2009

  • When Jeff finished up there, the bathmat would be all wet, towels left unhung.

    I slept with Joey Ramone Mickey Leigh 2009

  • When Jeff finished up there, the bathmat would be all wet, towels left unhung.

    I slept with Joey Ramone Mickey Leigh 2009

  • I'm storing, unoiled and unwaxed and unhung, my 1986 Cannondale road bike along with my 1987 Kuwahara mountain bike in a gangway and taking to the perilous and dicey NYC winter streets with my circa very late 20th Century Rock Hopper which I intend on hosing down in early March when I remount the milk crate.

    Putting It Away: Storing Bikes and Storing Calories BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • Display cases full of trinkets overflow onto unhung paintings.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Display cases full of trinkets overflow onto unhung paintings.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • We might even throw off the servitude that presently allows 'our leaders 'to inhabit our same world unhung and unreproached just so long as they inflict their iniquities on innocents other than ourselves.

    'Leaders', and what to do about them 2008

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