beholden
adjective
obligated; indebted.
unbeholden
-
a word derived from
beholden.
Example Sentences
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It’s still pastiche, but unbeholden to the nostalgia-obsessed, highly referential style that has plagued so much contemporary media, like “Stranger Things,” “Super 8” and “Wonder Woman 1984.”
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
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
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
"They were purple of raiment and golden, Filled full of thee, fiery with wine, Thy lovers in haunts unbeholden, In marvellous chambers of thine," is beautiful language, but not the only sort of beautiful language.
From Robert Browning by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
