CURBSTONE Synonyms: 96 Similar and Opposite Words

curbstone

adjective

Definition of curbstone

as in untutored

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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

Definition of untutored

Adjective

By the early sixties, the romance of the untaught or naïve artist was really catching.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of untaught

Adjective

The association acknowledged concerns raised by DHS around fraud with commercial driver’s licenses, unqualified drivers and English language proficiency.

— Eduardo Cuevas, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2026
Safety advocates say fewer inspections mean fewer chances to take bad trucks and unqualified drivers off the road.

— John Kelly, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of unqualified

Adjective

Atlanta’s snow-day reality When Atlanta gets meaningful snow or ice, AWD can help; but the larger problem is that the roads themselves become hazardous and other drivers may be unprepared.

— Beth Livesay, AJC.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Despite knowing a windfall is coming, most women are still unprepared to handle it.

— Medora Lee, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of unprepared

Adjective

Scholars hazarded theories as to how an unschooled middle-aged Black woman from the South could brush with genius.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 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

Definition of unschooled

Adjective

The whole was topped not by a cupola or a cross but a small pennant, on which the Festival emblem had been drawn in crayons in a rather amateurish hand.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
The show focuses on the fictional Toledo Truth Teller, an understaffed, more-than-slightly amateurish, failing publication that shares its office space with the Softees toilet paper company owned by its parent corporation.

— Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of amateurish

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

Definition of unskillful

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