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  • adjective Not intoxicated; sober.

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  • adjective not inebriated

Etymologies

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un- +‎ intoxicated

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Examples

  • I drank a little, but did my best to stay unintoxicated.

    Prison Of Souls Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • When the loose but gifted Byron lay in his Venetian exile he observed that, if it could be granted him to go back and live his misspent life over again, he would give his lucid and unintoxicated intervals to the composition, not of frivolous rhymes, but of essays upon political economy.

    Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

  • When the loose but gifted Byron lay in his Venetian exile he observed that, if it could be granted him to go back and live his misspent life over again, he would give his lucid and unintoxicated intervals to the composition, not of frivolous rhymes, but of essays upon political economy.

    Political Economy 1890

  • Byron lay in his Venetian exile he observed that, if it could be granted him to go back and live his misspent life over again, he would give his lucid and unintoxicated intervals to the composition, not of frivolous rhymes, but of essays upon political economy.

    Sketches New and Old, Part 1. Mark Twain 1872

  • Byron lay in his Venetian exile he observed that, if it could be granted him to go back and live his misspent life over again, he would give his lucid and unintoxicated intervals to the composition, not of frivolous rhymes, but of essays upon political economy.

    Sketches New and Old Mark Twain 1872

  • A little presence of mind, and a set of men unintoxicated, could have saved the boat.

    Diary in America, Series Two Frederick Marryat 1820

  • I stood unintoxicated, with the inebriating cup in my hand, looking forward with rueful resolve to the hastening time, when the blow of

    The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777

  • "When proud fortune's ebbing tide recedes," you will bear me witness, that when my bubble of fame was at the highest, I stood unintoxicated with the inebriating cup in my hand, looking forward with rueful resolve to the hastening time, when the blow of Calumny should dash it to the ground with all the eagerness of vengeful triumph.

    The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777

  • All it does is pull away the repressive restraints the unintoxicated mind places upon our behaviour.

    Progressive U - The new media voice for students 2009

  • ... as clarification that 'sober' does not mean 'unintoxicated' but has another sense: grave and sedate, perhaps, as my thorough research on Google just now suggests.

    Word Magazine - Comments 2009

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