soothe
verb (used with object)
to tranquilize or calm (a person or their emotions); relieve, comfort, or refresh.
unsoothed
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a word derived from
soothe.
Example Sentences
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In this new play, directed by Davis McCallum and set in small-town Idaho, T. R. Knight plays the lonely manager of an Olive Garden-ish restaurant, unsoothed by unlimited breadsticks.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2014
"Bertha is entitled to the best of everything in my mansion," answered the countess, unsoothed by this proposition.
From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie
I saw her alone in her solitary dwelling, suffering pain which was unsoothed by the voice of sympathy, and weakness which no friend was at hand to sustain.
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
Yet her anxiety was unsoothed, and the dread of madness came to her, but with it grew a brave defiance: she would not go mad, she would not!
From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hon. Agnes Blanche Marie Hay
The weary days dragged their slow length along, unsoothed by anything except Tulee's loving care and Madame's cheering letters.
From A Romance of the Republic by Lydia Maria Francis Child
