unstaled

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ staled

Adjective[edit]

unstaled (comparative more unstaled, superlative most unstaled)

  1. Not having gone stale; fresh.
    • 1930, Snorri Sturluson, Eric Rücker Eddison, Egil's Saga, page xii:
      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.
    • 2008, John Buchan, The Dancing Floor, page 24:
      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.
    • 2011, Winifred Holtby, South Riding:
      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.
    • 2012, Duncan Wu, Romanticism: An Anthology:
      Burns' language is imbued with a momentum of its own that induces laughter and exhilaration – an effect unstaled by familiarity.

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