Definitions

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  • adjective Not covered by a sheet.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ sheeted

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Examples

  • In shock, but figuring Tim would be okay, I stumbled to the bathroom, showered and shaved for the first time in a week, threw on my bell-bottoms and poorboy shirt, and went down to the dining room for breakfast, leaving Tim splayed out on his single unsheeted WWII mattress.

    Full Frontal Nudity Harry Hamlin 2010

  • However booming the economy, there are not enough dollars to even house the poor construction workers who are spread out all over Shanghai, men who are forced to sleep on dirty unsheeted mattresses slung inside the unfinished buildings.

    Steve Posner: The China Question: To Beg or to Blog? 2008

  • And if the mob showed up at the same time Lewis should appear, bringing back the body, there'd be unsheeted hell to pay.

    Way Station Simak, Clifford D., 1904- 1963

  • Michelet proclaims that at his touch the hollow idols were shattered and exposed, the carrion kings appeared, unsheeted and unmasked.

    Lectures on the French Revolution John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

  • "A problem only arises when you start digging in and carting it around the town in unsheeted lorries, and it blows absolutely everywhere."

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • "A problem only arises when you start digging in and carting it around the town in unsheeted lorries, and it blows absolutely everywhere."

    The Guardian World News 2009

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