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  • adjective Not tortured.

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un- +‎ tortured

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Examples

  • That people, untortured by circumstance or fate, are also good.

    Archive 2009-10-01 laura b 2009

  • Yet while always awake to his species 'shortcomings, Mr. Updike evinced a spiritual tranquility that has been distinctly unfashionable in intellectual circles over the past century or so: he was probably the most untortured of all our major writers.

    John Updike, Literary High Priest of Sex and Suburbia, Is Dead at 76 2009

  • That people, untortured by circumstance or fate, are also good.

    Only Justice Can Stop a Curse laura b 2009

  • I always like the keyboards guy, they're always so much more eclectic and untortured looking...and they rarely wear skinny jeans

    My Boyfriend is a Singer in a Rock&Roll Band. Jay 2007

  • I always like the keyboards guy, they're always so much more eclectic and untortured looking...and they rarely wear skinny jeans

    Archive 2007-06-01 Jay 2007

  • But there he sits in the quiet bungalow, soft-spoken, seemingly untortured, with the criminally cute Pooh Bear at his feet.

    Leaving Schmuckville Windolf, Jim 2006

  • But there he sits in the quiet bungalow, soft-spoken, seemingly untortured, with the criminally cute Pooh Bear at his feet.

    Leaving Schmuckville Windolf, Jim 2006

  • And just like that, she was standing beside him in the same bewildered but untortured shape in which she'd arrived.

    Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991

  • And just like that, she was standing beside him in the same bewildered but untortured shape in which she'd arrived.

    Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991

  • One might add that the "medieval" Ne Win regime has executed no more than a handful of its enemies (military officers attempting a coup), and has provided pensions and national honors, after periods of untortured imprisonment, for its best-known civilian opponents, such as U Nu, Kyaw Nyein, and Thakin Soe, even when they had been in armed rebellion.

    An Exchange on Burma Anderson, Benedict R. 1987

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