ungilded
- a word derived from gilded.
Example Sentences
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But his inability to leave any lily ungilded — to direct a scene without tilting or hurtling or throwing the camera around — is bludgeoning and deadly.
From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2012
Another, with more foresight, brought home five hundred pairs, ungilded, and offered them for sale.
From The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest by Thompson, Holland
As if that he might leave no form of human utterance ungilded by his genius, Shakespeare in Thersites has given us the apotheosis of blackguardism and billingsgate.
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
"I trust the purification will be complete," said the King, without any tendency to the smile which always softened features, that, ungilded by its influence, were dark, harsh, and even severe.
From Peveril of the Peak by Scott, Walter, Sir
Chinese vases, marble slabs for tables, old and new furniture with curving lines, with griffins, sphinxes, and lions' paws, gilded and ungilded, chandeliers, sconces, all were heaped together in a perfect chaos of art.
From Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich
