frontless
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- frontlessly adverb
- frontlessness noun
Etymology
Origin of frontless
Example Sentences
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He is restrained, frontless company: clever, composed, serious even, behind the fine beak and popping eyes.
From The Guardian • May 5, 2016
People talked about weather, washing machines, colds, divorce, children's appetites, and at times, after a few drinks, about that fascinating postwar fiction, the frontless evening gown.
From Time Magazine Archive
How again and again he refined the polluted cup, exalted the debased emotion, rectified the perverted impulse, detected the lurking venom, baffled the frontless temptation—purified, justified, watched, and withstood?
From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte
In short, he is a demagogue in embryo, with every quality necessary to a splendid success in that vocation,—a strong voice, a fluent utterance, an incessant iteration, and a frontless impudence.
From Our Village by Mitford, Mary Russell
Is not this the very utmost reach of frontless profligacy?
From Four Early Pamphlets by Godwin, William
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