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  • adjective Not stifled.

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un- +‎ stifled

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Examples

  • The version by Lady Charlotte Guest in 1849 is quite formal and sedate and doesn't really bring this out, but even so it is still there in spirit, unstifled by Victorian morality.

    Richard Britton Interview Philistine Press 2010

  • The version by Lady Charlotte Guest in 1849 is quite formal and sedate and doesn't really bring this out, but even so it is still there in spirit, unstifled by Victorian morality.

    Archive 2010-07-01 Philistine Press 2010

  • Our only chance of foreseeing the potential world-shaking impact of Galtonian artificial selection rests in the honest, unstifled study of Darwinian natural selection.

    2005 September - Telic Thoughts 2005

  • Our only chance of foreseeing the potential world-shaking impact of Galtonian artificial selection rests in the honest, unstifled study of Darwinian natural selection.

    A Curiosity 2005

  • The fact becomes clear when we react to ancient literature in the natural, unstifled way we would to a modern text.

    The Muse in the Machine David Gelernter 1994

  • The part the pigeon performs is to transport the nut to free, unstifled soil.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • Not just listened to in general, but REALLY listened to, unstifled in any way.

    sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2002

  • Now they sat back in their seats and closed their eyes or looked mutely at the passing drab scenery with no more than an unstifled yawn, until they pulled through the embassy gate.

    The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000

  • He sees a place where there is a galaxy that is unstifled by the rules of the Federation, striving ceaselessly to create a perfect reality that exists only in the minds of those who have an interest in maintaining the status quo.

    Double or Nothing Peter David 1999

  • Or was it only the unstifled yearning in his heart that made her seem so?

    Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

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