challenged
[chal-injd]
- a euphemism for disabled (usually preceded by an adverb): physically challenged.
- deficient or lacking (usually preceded by an adverb or noun and used facetiously): ethically challenged; math-challenged.
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Origin of challenged
1980–85, Americanism
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Contemporary Examples
Al-Qaeda overran Lahij on August 11 unchallenged, bombed the buildings specified in the memos, then left.
For example, she cited her campaign to expose pedophiles living, unnamed and unchallenged, among vulnerable communities.
Murdoch on the Rocks: How a Lone Reporter Revealed the Mogul's Tabloid Terror MachineClive Irving
August 25, 2014
One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.
The Likud Party has worked to establish facts on the ground that if unchallenged would make a future Palestinian state impossible.
Unchallenged by a competitive industry and unmotivated by a bottom line, federal workers often work fewer hours.
Historical Examples
This sacramentalism was not unchallenged, as we have already seen from Plato himself.
The Legacy of GreeceVarious
Why should not sight be added to the unchallenged datum of the mind.
The Dragon PainterMary McNeil Fenollosa
He was a man of chivalrous instincts and unchallenged probity.
Lord John RussellStuart J. Reid
Generally, however, as this incompatibility is accepted, it is not unchallenged.
Evolution, Old & NewSamuel Butler
For almost a thousand years they have been our unchallenged rule of governance.
The Princess DehraJohn Reed Scott
unchallenged
- not having been challenged or questionedthirty years of unchallenged power
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challenged
- (in combination) disabled or disadvantaged in some wayphysically challenged performers
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Word Origin and History for unchallenged
challenged
adj.
as a euphemism for "disabled," 1985, past participle adjective from challenge (v.).
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