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
  • Take its internal golf academy, which now provides group lessons and open days for the curious yet uninitiated.
    Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 16 May 2026
  • The hungry yet uninitiated may enter the new 1986 Steak House, glance around and wonder whose likeness that is on the wall.
    Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • ZipRecruiter has more than 500 job posting templates, with screening questions that help employers move quickly to an offer and avoid time spent on mismatched resumes and unqualified applicants.
    Audrey Payne, CNBC, 29 May 2026
  • Independents said the worst thing about Republicans was their loyalty to Trump (10%), perceptions of corruption and self-enrichment (8%), dishonesty, hypocrisy or immorality (7%), a lack of concern for ordinary people or cruelty (6%), and ineffective and weak or unqualified leadership (5%).
    Emily Guskin, ABC News, 27 May 2026
Adjective
  • The car’s unveiling in Monaco, on the eve of the Monaco Grand Prix, caught media and industry unprepared.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 June 2026
  • This Knicks playoff run has revealed how unprepared the city is for its growing fandom.
    Jeremy Rellosa, Curbed, 4 June 2026
Adjective
  • When Obama met Trump for a ritual pre-Inauguration visit to the Oval Office, he was struck by how unschooled and incurious the President-elect was.
    Peter Slevin, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Mata was also concerned about how the data failed to display how INA staff works with the lowest English proficiency students in the district — specifically those who are unschooled, and oftentimes refugees who have just entered the country.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • What the evaluation process actually looks like A major myth says online screens are flimsy or amateurish.
    Lucy Jones April 11, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The amateurish stickup failed, fast.
    Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 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 7 Jun. 2026.

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