unbitten
adjective
un·bit·ten
ˌən-ˈbi-tᵊn 
: not bitten
I think it is safe to say that television's voracious gobbling up of the literature of the past … will leave Henry James's works uneaten, and even unbitten.—
James Thurber
James ThurberI withstood, at first impassively, the mounted aggression of a fleet of mosquitoes. Jackson sat imperturbably, unbitten.—Gini Alhadeff
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Every unbitten hook had taken us closer to the statistical inevitability of a catch.
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“Unbitten.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unbitten. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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