fretted
adjective
ornamented or provided with frets.
unfretted
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a word derived from
fretted.
Example Sentences
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Soaring above the metallic drone of an unfretted lute called a tamboura, Shankar finished in a furious display of virtuosity that brought a cheering ovation from the audience.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a great book because the romance of it emerges into undisturbed amplitude of space, and asserts itself in large, grand, primitive forms unfretted by teasing irrelevancies.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by John Cowper Powys
Her skin was extraordinarily unfretted for her forty-five years of life.
From Love of Brothers by Katharine Tynan
The fig leaves may have lost none of their verdure—the sky may be unfretted by one vengeful cloud—nature, around you, may be hushed and still.
From Memories of Bethany by John R. (John Ross) Macduff
He is no longer a vagrant, but at home in his own greenwood, yet as unfretted by the cares of housekeeping as he was by the heavy weariness of winter.
From In New England Fields and Woods by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
