curbstone

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for curbstone
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
  • His mini-concert in the Padres’ cafeteria and riffs in and around the clubhouse felt uncannily on time, even to my uninitiated ear.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2026
  • For the three people left in the world who remain uninitiated, breakout stars Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie play Shane Hudson and Ilya Rozanov, two rival hockey captains who fall in love over the course of a decade of yearning and clandestine hookups.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 19 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Until recently, when asked a version of it, his answer was a clear, unqualified yes.
    Ronan Farrow, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Where Uthmeier succumbs to bigotry is in the presumption that DEI means unqualified.
    Howard L. Simon, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The election Sunday takes place during a surge in violent crime and corruption, fueling widespread discontent among voters, who largely view candidates as dishonest and unprepared for the presidency.
    Regina Garcia Cano, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Trump’s outbursts bespoke the frustration of a thoroughly incompetent ruler who began a war with no plan for how to conduct or conclude it and was unprepared for Iran’s resistance.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 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
  • The amateurish stickup failed, fast.
    Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Perhaps in a previous time where Plantasia and Ernest Hood weren’t so in-demand, Freedom to Spend wouldn’t have been incentivized to dig up this amateurish set of tracks, and give it the full reissue treatment.
    Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 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 16 Apr. 2026.

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