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- adjective
superlative form ofunripe : mostunripe .
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Examples
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The publicity is so odious, and one does get bored by the passengers constantly wandering up and down the train, and the boys who pass and repass every ten minutes selling books, newspapers, cigars, candy, and the unripest of fruit, which they are always pressing you to buy; to say nothing of chewing, spitting Americans one has to countenance all day long.
A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba Cecil Hall
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I was one of five sergeants of the troop, the unripest among them and already accounted lucky.
Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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