uncommissioned
- a word derived from commission.
Example Sentences
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Because Sargent painted a portrait of him which, uncommissioned and untitled, is one of the great portraits of his career.
From New York Times • May 7, 2020
Estudio 314’s rendering adopts a Barragán colour scheme with an equally faithful lack of ornament, though the studio has a little fun with other features in this imaginative, uncommissioned proposal.
From The Guardian • Nov. 5, 2016
The gallery will not have what is bound to be one of the artist's most interesting works: an uncommissioned portrait of John F. Kennedy that Jamie has been working on for the last four months.
From Time Magazine Archive
She spoke out her uncommissioned thoughts and fancies musingly, as if without the knowledge of her will.
From Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky by Simms, William Gilmore
The blaze of "uncommissioned meteors" had intervened where the authorised luminaries failed, and if they dazzled, it was with excess of light.
From Robert Browning by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)
