curbstone

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Adjective
  • No untutored voice, nor even sound of rushing car disturbed the seemingly sacred stillness of the hour.
    Erin Alberty, Axios, 14 Apr. 2025
  • His savage, untutored mind suggested no better way than that of wreaking vengeance upon those who had wronged him.
    Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Still, with this inspirational true story, the streamer stands to reach a much wider public than Perry’s typical audience, reminding how much of American history remains untaught and largely untold.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Until recent years, the story of how this period affected California’s Indigenous peoples had largely gone untaught or underrecognized.
    Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2024
Adjective
  • For those uninitiated, the McRib is sort of a big deal.
    Dallas Morning News, Dallas Morning News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The Marvel faithful will appreciate the seeds the show planted to kick off Phase Four of the MCU, and the Marvel uninitiated will enjoy watching Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany engage in a playful romp, pleasures that were denied their characters during their earlier movies.
    James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Peter Lurie, a physician and president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, called Means an unqualified wellness influencer and lifestyle blogger.
    Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Federal regulators are shutting down more than 550 commercial driving schools nationwide after finding unqualified instructors, inadequate testing and other safety failures.
    Josh Funk, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Senate Bill 2019 would allow private school teachers without a college degree to obtain a temporary public school teaching waiver, a move one national teacher quality organization said could lead to unprepared teachers.
    Melissa Brown, Chalkbeat, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Yet these women rarely went unprepared.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • By comparison, Danceny is practically a boy, unschooled in the art of manipulation, and Reeves provides the character with the appropriate youthful naïveté.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Whether these findings map onto kids who are unschooled in the context of worldschooling remains to be seen without systematic longitudinal studies; anecdotal evidence from the parents in my research suggests mixed results.
    Jennie Germann Molz, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Through both instruction and practice, her once amateurish videos evolved into photojournalism.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The wildly amateurish performances turn the story’s tragic high points into moments of unintentional goofiness.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • It was intended to be a mockery of the way White people danced, though plantation owners often interpreted slaves' movements as unskillful attempts to be like them.
    Scottie Andrew and Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 6 July 2020
  • One of the most fraught issues around suicide clusters is unskillful media coverage, which studies suggest can spur copycats.
    Kate Siber, Outside Online, 4 Sep. 2018
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“Curbstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curbstone. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.

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