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unstaled en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + staled.

Meanings

1. Not having gone stale; fresh.
   • Burns' language is imbued with a momentum of its own that induces laughter and exhilaration – an effect unstaled by familiarity. 2012, Duncan Wu, Romanticism: An Anthology:
   • If you are a busy lawyer without any outside ambitions you spend your days using one bit of your mind, and the rest remains comparatively young and unstaled. 2008, John Buchan, The Dancing Floor, page 24:
   • But her heart was so so generous, her range of acquaintance so wide and her delight in human relationships so unstaled, that she could have spent a national income without difficulty. 2011, Winifred Holtby, South Riding:
   • But the sagas have another quality which they share only with a few of the great literary masterpieces of the world : the quality of vivid, unstaled and undauntable life. 1930, Snorri Sturluson, Eric Rücker Eddison, Egil's Saga, page xii:

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