hardened
adjective
made or become hard or harder.
unhardened
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a word derived from
hardened.
Example Sentences
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It’s embodied best by the unhardened Slim, who, in his few relaxed moments, leans back to gaze admiringly at Queen, wholly unbothered by her two or three inches of height above him.
From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2019
In addition to his workshop aides, he employs four engravers who operate out of home studios where they can concentrate on making up to 8,000 dots per square millimeter on unhardened steel.
From BusinessWeek ● Jul. 29, 2010
"They have physically unhardened soldiers commanded by officers who have had to sell off most of their equipment just to keep the troops fed."
From Time Magazine Archive
Such a staircase, with its accessories, in the older and more crowded parts of Paris, would be bad enough now; but, at that time, it was vile indeed to unaccustomed and unhardened senses.
From A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
But water has an influence toward hastening to blister paint; it holds the unhardened woodsap in solution, forming a slight solvent of the oil, thereby loosening the paint from the wood, favoring blistering and peeling.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 by Various
