unwhipped
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a word derived from
whipped.
Example Sentences
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He once said: "Private detectives as a class are the biggest lot of blackmailing thieves that ever went unwhipped of justice."
From Time Magazine Archive
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To Attorney General Herbert Brownell, it seems absurd and dangerous to let spies "go unwhipped of justice" behind that shield.
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As is often the case, the greater criminal goes unwhipped of justice.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various
Bruised and torn by a two days' unequal contest, its flags are still up, and its men still unwhipped.
From The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer by John Beatty
I told him that if I should print more he would find me worse than ever with my rash, unwhipped generalization.
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Thomas Carlyle