fleck
noun
a speck; a small bit.
unflecked
-
a word derived from
fleck.
Example Sentences
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Unlike most of the half-forgotten U.S. proletarian novelists of two decades ago, Pratolini knows how proletarians live, and he writes about them with a tender gravity that is unflecked by condescension or political twisting.
From Time Magazine Archive
When, on that sunlit morning, we left Whalen, a cloudless sky and glassy sea unflecked by the tiniest floe led me to hope that our troubles were at an end.
From From Paris to New York by Land by Harry De Windt
The cerulean was bright and unflecked with a speck of vapor, like a concave mirror of burnished steel.
From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by William Henry Sparks
He looked up into a blue unflecked sky.
From The Sheriff's Son by William MacLeod Raine
She experienced a sensation as though, even in the bright sunshine beneath the blue, unflecked summer sky where all was instinct with growth and health and life, she were watching a deathbed.
From Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe
