kiss
verb (used with object)
to touch or press with the lips slightly pursed, and then often to part them and to emit a smacking sound, in an expression of affection, love, greeting, reverence, etc..
unkissed
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a word derived from
kiss.
Example Sentences
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But it’s interesting that so many members — more than 20, or nearly half the committee — took time off the campaign trail, leaving all those babies unkissed for now, all that the money unraised.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2012
April was boredom and heartbreak, sports unplayed and sweethearts unkissed.
From Washington Post
His beard was dank, red, hedged, jowl and cheek; clammy were his hands; unkissed, unblessed, looked this great author.
From Time Magazine Archive
It’s all a little cliché for my tastes—the words on the phone, the silly smile I can’t get rid of—but so is being seventeen and unkissed.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
Night comes with brows of ragged storm, And limbs of writhen cloud and mist; The rain-wind hangs upon his arm Like some wild girl who cries unkissed.
From The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse
