Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Incautious; careless.
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- adjective Scotland Inattentive; clumsy; incautious.
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Examples
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“The cursed Highland salvages!” muttered the Captain, half aloud; “what is to become of me, if Gustavus, the namesake of the invincible Lion of the Protestant League, should be lamed among their untenty hands!”
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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I have told you already I would never be so untenty as to commit myself.
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I have told you already I would never be so untenty as to commit myself.
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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I have told you already I would never be so untenty as to commit myself.
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` ` The cursed Highland salvages! '' muttered the Captain, half aloud; ` ` what is to become of me, if Gustavus, the namesake of the invincible Lion of the Protestant League, should be lamed among their untenty hands? ''
A Legend of Montrose 1871
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"The cursed Highland salvages!" muttered the Captain, half aloud; "what is to become of me, if Gustavus, the namesake of the invincible Lion of the Protestant League, should be lamed among their untenty hands!"
A Legend of Montrose Walter Scott 1801
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