unwonted
not usual or customary; out of the ordinary
Unwonted in a sentence
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She greeted the news with an unwonted display of emotion that startled her colleagues.
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Verbal · Sentence Equivalence
Far from being the revolutionary thinker his admirers claimed, the philosopher was in fact quite blank, defending the traditional doctrines of his teachers without challenge.
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seeming to be present everywhere at the same time
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complete and unqualified, without anything to diminish it
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complete agreement among everyone involved
impossible to attack, question, or refute
not subjected to attack or challenge
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