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  • adjective Not particular.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ particular

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Examples

  • The continent is full of deserts, jungles, highlands, savannahs and many other things, but your reader doesn't care about all that, so keep your descriptions romantic and evocative and unparticular.

    so very apt jen 2007

  • The continent is full of deserts, jungles, highlands, savannahs and many other things, but your reader doesn't care about all that, so keep your descriptions romantic and evocative and unparticular.

    Archive 2007-11-01 jen 2007

  • Sentech is expected to address the issue of network coverage which will cover the rest of the country and unparticular the underdeveloped areas of our country.

    Speech by M Mbili during the Special Adjustment Appropriation Bill Debate 2007

  • Africa is big: fifty-four countries, 900 million people who are too busy starving and dying and warring and emigrating to read your book... so keep your descriptions romantic and evocative and unparticular.

    Archive 2006-01-01 2006

  • In its own unparticular way, it brought a close to this Irish episode, back where it had all begun with the boy from the Forty Foot who hobbled and spat.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • In its own unparticular way, it brought a close to this Irish episode, back where it had all begun with the boy from the Forty Foot who hobbled and spat.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • The meat man did not like the boycott at all; he wanted to get rid of his surplus sirloins, and the asceticism of those who preferred to thrive on black tea enabled him to invite the unparticular people to pick and choose the rib -- the equine rib -- they liked best.

    The Siege of Kimberley T. Phelan

  • At present our particular, or unparticular, company, numbers twenty-one men, with five troop horses and some officers 'chargers, all that is left of the hundred and twenty mounted men that left Maitland Camp in May.

    A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross

  • The continent is full of deserts, jungles, highlands, savannahs and many other things, but your reader doesn't care about all that, so keep your descriptions romantic and evocative and unparticular.

    EphBlog 2009

  • The continent is full of deserts, jungles, highlands, savannahs and many other things, but your reader doesn’t care about all that, so keep your descriptions romantic and evocative and unparticular.

    Four More « Gerry Canavan 2009

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