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
We travelled at night or in the freshness of early morning, regardless of the hours, unfretted by the tyrannous remembrances of appointed times.
From Apologia Diffidentis by O. M. (Ormonde Maddock) Dalton
Detail vanished from the Moor; dim and dimensionless it spread to the transparent splendour of the horizon, and its eternal attributes of great vastness, great loneliness, great silence reigned together unfretted by particulars.
From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts
I say "transparent," for they were as though the roseate blood shone through, and the wandering violet veins showed the clearness of the unfretted palm.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Elizabeth Sheppard
How softly, almost lingeringly, it lets the moments slip from gold to gray, seeking to give him, to the full and unfretted, his little hour in the sunshine!
From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Frank W. Hutchins
