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tameless

American  
[teym-lis] / ˈteɪm lɪs /

adjective

  1. untamed or untamable.


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Etymology

Origin of tameless

First recorded in 1590–1600; tame + -less

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When the production ends in song and dance — a tameless exaltation of noise and movement — it seemed to leave even the air in the theater tremulous with excitement.

From New York Times Dec. 6, 2022

"And then there was Abe, loyal as they came, quiet when quiet was called for, and, if need be, tameless as the stalking lion."

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2015

When Uday was in his mid-20s, Saddam wrote his tameless son a letter, on official presidential stationery, in an effort to rein him in.

From Time Magazine Archive

The chaplain loved his wife and children with such tameless intensity that he often wanted to sink to the ground helplessly and weep like a castaway cripple.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

The Goths, accustomed for generations to their tameless freedom, have not acquired the habit of obedience to the laws.

From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Thomas Hodgkin

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