Definitions
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- adj. Not rebuked.
Etymologies
Examples
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Two days ago the girls who were "unrebuked" this evening would have found themselves in jail instead.
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Notice the complexity of the teaching: Human beings go unrebuked when they celebrate the downfall and death of a tyrant; but the Rabbis are addressing our higher selves, trying to move us into a higher place.
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Left unrebuked and denounced, the sentiment may fester and they may become emboldend to to worse things.
Georgia congressman: Wilson's outburst 'carefully calculated'
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You don't need to put in a panel of a grinning hook-nosed Shylock or say the phrase "Jew money-lenders" or even put (or hint at the concept) "Jew" and "money-lenders" in context with one another for the term -- left unrebuked -- to be understood for what it is.
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His country's nearly unbroken record of double-crossing Western oil companies has gone pretty much unrebuked.
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The death of investigative journalists, the killings of nosy legislators, the polonium murder, on British soil, of critic Alexander Litvinenko, in an act of nuclear terrorism, have all gone pretty much unrebuked.
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His seizure of Yukos and imprisonment of its boss, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which incidentally wiped out Yukos's Western minority shareholders, went mostly unrebuked.
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The problem the Republicans have is that the psychotic wing of their party, which stands uncensored, unrepudiated, unrebuked by the rest of the party, has tarred all of them.
OH-GOV: GOP Pastor Demands Stricklands "Prove" They're Not Gay
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Having grown up as a Parsee in Karachi where women can walk unrebuked with a duppatta over their heads, she thought for the very first time, "Bloody hell -- this country is being Talibanized '"
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One could think so given it has stayed there, unrebutted and unrebuked.
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