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
  • Most applicants were obviously unqualified or had concocted entirely fake profiles.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Most of it was courtesy of Camilo Doval, one of the Giants’ few unqualified international success stories in recent decades.
    Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • With dogma filling school days, students aren’t being educated and are left intellectually unprepared for much but obedience.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Local officials have grown increasingly wary of unprepared and inexperienced hikers setting out on some of the toughest peaks during perilous conditions.
    Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 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
  • Those kinds of records—Talulah Gosh and Beat Happening—tended to the lo-fi and amateurish as a point of pride.
    Elizabeth Nelson, Pitchfork, 22 Jan. 2026
  • This annoyed Potter, who felt holding talks in such a public place was an amateurish move.
    Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
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 25 Jan. 2026.

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