Definitions

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  • adjective Not protective.

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  • adjective not affording protection

Etymologies

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un- +‎ protective

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Examples

  • This book has all of them and an explanation for why the red-headed female warrior is wearing such revealing and decidedly unprotective armour.

    MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa) 2010

  • Do not point the the blame of misuse of this technology on “naive, young (and adult), uninformed, gullible users and others with zero understanding of the technology” but blame the uniformed uneducated, unprotective and uncaring parents who do not monitor their children, nor take the time to be educated, protective, or informed.

    First Look: IRL Connect Puts Facebook, Twitter on the Map 2009

  • And it was also really funny, (UNINTELLIGIBLE), it's kind of great because it provides unprotective coloring really, because it let's everyone in Boston know who the real freaks are.

    CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2004 2004

  • We have already shown what an exceedingly unprotective and unremunerative arrangement it is that is accorded to the American author, and we have yet to find a single one, except perhaps Mr. Carey, who is satisfied with it.

    International Copyright Considered in some of its Relations to Ethics and Political Economy George Haven Putnam 1887

  • But he durst not go near the pool, and Clare would be sure to get out again and be after him! so he stood with the hated creature in his unprotective arms.

    A Rough Shaking George MacDonald 1864

  • John Walke, an attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, wrote in a blog that the change would force the EPA "to set unprotective air quality standards for smog and soot and lead pollution that are at odds with health science, based on cost complaints by polluting industries."

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • John Walke, an attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, wrote in a blog that the change would force the EPA "to set unprotective air quality standards for smog and soot and lead pollution that are at odds with health science, based on cost complaints by polluting industries."

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • John Walke, an attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, wrote in a blog that the change would force the EPA "to set unprotective air quality standards for smog and soot and lead pollution that are at odds with health science, based on cost complaints by polluting industries."

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • John Walke, an attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, wrote in a blog that the change would force the EPA "to set unprotective air quality standards for smog and soot and lead pollution that are at odds with health science, based on cost complaints by polluting industries."

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • Our country would be in major trouble -- A family, who believes it is okay to have unprotective sex, not married and become pregnant at seventeen.

    WN.com - Articles related to How coffee breaks make staff work harder 2010

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