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UNMOLESTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unmolested mean? 

UNMOLESTED (adjective)
  The adjective UNMOLESTED has 1 sense:

1. not interfered with, disturbed, or harmedplay

  Familiarity information: UNMOLESTED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNMOLESTED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Not interfered with, disturbed, or harmed

Similar:

untroubled (not beset by troubles or disturbance or distress)


 Context examples 


He stood upon his right to go his way unmolested and to give trail to no dog.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

As it was, I lived ungazed at and unmolested, hardly thanked for the pittance of food and clothes which I gave, so much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of men.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A room to himself where he could burn the midnight oil unmolested.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Here and there savage dogs rushed upon him, but he bristled his neck-hair and snarled (for he was learning fast), and they let him go his way unmolested.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I shall take up my abode in a religious house near Lisle—a nunnery you would call it; there I shall be quiet and unmolested.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The holluschickie haul out by themselves, and Dr. Jordan says that paths are left between the harems, and that as long as the holluschickie keep strictly to the path they are unmolested by the masters of the harem.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Let her sleep unmolested.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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