Definitions

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  • adjective Not having been smelled.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ smelled

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Examples

  • Why not pledge my belief in all things unheard or, for that matter, unsmelled?

    The Unseen And Unknowable Has No Place In Science Eric Michael Johnson 2010

  • Why not pledge my belief in all things unheard or, for that matter, unsmelled?

    Eric Michael Johnson: The Unseen And Unknowable Has No Place In Science 2010

  • Seems she ordered some delish perfume from them -- by the description alone she knew she wanted it, which I wouldn't recommend for everyone, because you've got to let a scent mingle with your own body chemistry to really know if it's going to work -- but Monyette Paris worked sight-unseen or unsmelled for SisterBang.

    You Can Smell So Spaishul PeaceBang 2006

  • A perfume bottle sitting on the shelf unsmelled and unworn is like an orphan child waiting for adoption.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Ayala Sender 2006

  • Seems she ordered some delish perfume from them -- by the description alone she knew she wanted it, which I wouldn't recommend for everyone, because you've got to let a scent mingle with your own body chemistry to really know if it's going to work -- but Monyette Paris worked sight-unseen or unsmelled for SisterBang.

    Archive 2006-07-02 PeaceBang 2006

  • Not so much love in the world that one could afford to pass, leaving it unsmelled, unplucked.

    The White Monkey 2004

  • Radon gas could be a problem the world over as it was produced by the decay of naturally occurring uranium in rocks and seeped unseen and unsmelled into people's homes, giving them cancer.

    Second Wind Francis, Dick 1999

  • A glimmer of golden wood caught my eye, just as the unsmelled odor of chaos gripped at my feelings, as the chaos-master's coach rolled slowly by, drawn by the two oversized white horses I had first seen on the road from Freetown the previous fall.

    The Magic of Recluce Modesitt, L. E. 1991

  • The mixed odors of apple, straw and boots constituted a unique and long unsmelled perfume which had sunk deep into my memory.

    Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911

  • For it must not be thought that those eyes were dull or that nose plain -- no, no, those eyes could put two and two together; that nose, of myriad fancy, could imagine countless things unsmelled which must lie behind a state of life not quite its own.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

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