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  • adjective Not uniformed; not wearing a uniform.

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un- +‎ uniformed

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Examples

  • You can be sure that there's riot police there, members of the Iran's Basij, the ununiformed volunteer militia.

    CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2009 2009

  • When a covert (ununiformed) group of Americans are caught at some point in the future, taking photographs in China, or Russia, North Korea (or take your pick from many others) and their Government holds them indefinitely, using "coercive interrogation techniques" on them for months on end, I suppose you won't have a problem with that either.

    Sound Politics: Sad but true. Darcy Burner only voted about half the time; failed to vote for schools, parks, libraries 2006

  • As we learned, unfortunately, in Veit Nam, when ever we secured territory we lost it the next night to re-infiltration by ununiformed, unidentifiable irregular troops.

    Sound Politics: "Double Down"? 2006

  • "When a covert (ununiformed) group of Americans are caught at some point in the future, taking photographs in China, or Russia, North Korea ... and their Government holds them indefinitely, using 'coercive interrogation techniques' on them for months on end"

    Sound Politics: Sad but true. Darcy Burner only voted about half the time; failed to vote for schools, parks, libraries 2006

  • The law and procedure are the magic charms that protect him from being subject to the baser instincts than plague us ununiformed mortals.

    Nothing Has Changed Since The Rodney King Verdict 2006

  • BELLINI: Out in the distance, ununiformed Iraqi soldiers again fighting what the Marines consider an unfair fight, potshots from men in civilian clothing dispersed among the civilian population.

    CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2003 2003

  • Some detachments were gaily uniformed in the scarlets and light blues and greens of select social-militia companies; some small groups were in homespun and coonskin caps; others, ununiformed, were in broadcloth and fine linen; all were half-drilled, half-armed, wild with excitement and shouting as though en route to a picnic.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Some detachments were gaily uniformed in the scarlets and light blues and greens of select social-militia companies; some small groups were in homespun and coonskin caps; others, ununiformed, were in broadcloth and fine linen; all were half-drilled, half-armed, wild with excitement and shouting as though en route to a picnic.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Some detachments were gaily uniformed in the scarlets and light blues and greens of select social-militia companies; some small groups were in homespun and coonskin caps; others, ununiformed, were in broadcloth and fine linen; all were half-drilled, half-armed, wild with excitement and shouting as though en route to a picnic.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Some detachments were gaily uniformed in the scarlets and light blues and greens of select social-militia companies; some small groups were in homespun and coonskin caps; others, ununiformed, were in broadcloth and fine linen; all were half-drilled, half-armed, wild with excitement and shouting as though en route to a picnic.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

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