beholden
adjective
obligated; indebted.
unbeholden
-
a word derived from
beholden.
Example Sentences
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Human bodies that seem somehow unbeholden to the laws of physics and gravity do inspire awe, but spectacle is just one facet of this modern circus group.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
Subtle at first, then with a fury unbeholden to reason.
From Salon ● May 2, 2023
The freedom that contemporary art claims for itself — its sense of being unbeholden to rules or convention — is one of the things I love about it.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2019
Greenwald struck him as unbeholden to official sources, and unencumbered by “a fear of being taken to be unserious, or shrill, if you go over the boundaries of polite conversation.”
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 27, 2018
XI Time, in the darkness unbeholden That hides him from the sight of fear And lets but dreaming hope draw near, Smiled and was sad to hear such golden Strains hail the all-golden year.
From Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III by Algernon Charles Swinburne
