scathe
verb (used with object)
to attack with severe criticism.
scatheless
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a word derived from
scathe.
Example Sentences
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He had passed through Spurling's temptation scatheless, therefore he could afford him tenderness.
From Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin by Coningsby Dawson
It is not necessary to state that to have passed the ordeal of so severe a cross-examination scatheless, needed no small amount of courage, intelligence, and ready shrewdness on the part of the witness.
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles
Small wonder he thinks so when you remember how he brought our men back scatheless with the spoil of Castac.
From The Arrow-Maker A Drama in Three Acts by Mary Hunter Austin
Had it not been for them and you together, I would scarce have got off so scatheless as I have done.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various
A measured mind, and calm; innocent, unrepentant; helpful to sinless creatures and scatheless, such of the flock as do not stray.
From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by John Ruskin
