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unhung

American  
[uhn-huhng] / ˌʌnˈhʌŋ /

adjective

  1. (of a picture, door, etc.) not having been hung.

  2. (of a person) not punished with hanging.


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State Treasurer Elizabeth Muoio was among them, still sorting through boxes and unhung picture frames.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2023

Dozens more are at the back of the gallery, unhung, leaning against one another.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2022

The studio is not otherwise very ornamented — a pile of platinum album plaques loll, unhung, in the bathroom.

From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2021

She’s staying in the spare room with the lumpy mattress and the unhung Jack Vettriano print, but in the night creeps downstairs to eat mini rolls and wonder how it all came to this.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2018

Not the best character actor unhung could have simulated the owlish ignorance in Cash’s face.

From Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls by Various

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