Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having been without sleep.
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Examples
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I heard her say, “Just like you to take your time after forcing me to hurry the food, and now I am waiting with the hot rice, and me up since dawn and unslept half the night with this squalling child … ”
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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I heard her say, “Just like you to take your time after forcing me to hurry the food, and now I am waiting with the hot rice, and me up since dawn and unslept half the night with this squalling child … ”
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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Our poets die in obscurity, copywriters eat lunch alone, and screenwriters go unslept with.
Glenn W. Smith: Slippery Scribes Shaft Striking Screenwriters 2008
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And there'll be fresh circle of unslept craziness to welcome you.
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I heard her say, “Just like you to take your time after forcing me to hurry the food, and now I am waiting with the hot rice, and me up since dawn and unslept half the night with this squalling child … ”
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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But when we very eventually found the little street and remember, everyone's straight off a 30 hour flight, unshowered, unslept and been traipsing through the 30 degree heat for 3 hours it....umm.....wasn't there!
Roma, Roma Niki 2006
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But when we very eventually found the little street and remember, everyone's straight off a 30 hour flight, unshowered, unslept and been traipsing through the 30 degree heat for 3 hours it....umm.....wasn't there!
Archive 2006-11-01 Niki 2006
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Whew, not too bad - now back to all those unread posts... or, hmm, maybe those unread comics... or that unslept sleep...
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It was very early on a gusty, grey, spring morning; and he himself was cold and unslept.
The Way Home 2003
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Weary and unslept, he had risen, day after day, to take up the struggle; the sole object of which was the grinding for bread.
Ultima Thule 2003
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