unredeemed

adjective

un·​re·​deemed ˌən-ri-ˈdēmd 

: not redeemed

unredeemed gift cards

unredeemed sin

Examples of unredeemed in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

As comptroller, in response to demands by the World Jewish Congress and other groups, Mr. Hevesi used his power over city pension fund investments to help force Swiss banks to indemnify heirs of Holocaust victims for their unredeemed Nazi-era bank balances. —Sam Roberts, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023

So, carrying certain items such as extra credit and debit cards, your social security card, passport, blank checks, birth certificate, unredeemed gift cards, passwords, library cards, Medicare card and membership cards is a no-no and can all pose risks. —Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 15 July 2023

The ongoing, unredeemed sum of these untold victims’ agony culminates in the myth—and, more important, in the reality that the myth represents—and Anthony, armed with this knowledge, expands his art with an obsessional fervor ranging far beyond the myth’s local specifics. —Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2021

The Hand, the only erotic section of Eros (2004), an otherwise unredeemed anthology film with contributions by Michelangelo Antonioni and Steven Soderbergh, now rereleased by itself in an extended cut as part of the Hong Kong auteur’s U.S. retrospective, The World of Wong Kar Wai. —Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above