ungarbledadj.
1. Not garbled, cleansed, or sifted; not selected or sorted out.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] > uncleaned > uncleaned in other specific manner
ungarbled1439
unbrushenc1460
unscouredc1475
unswept1597
unscrapen1599
unwiped?1602
unswilled1645
unscraped1725
unmopped1775
unshovelled1828
unfurbished1829
unscavengered1846
unscreened1851
ill-scraped1858
unlicked1861
undusted1862
unbrushed1888
unscrubbedc1900
1439 Rolls of Parl. V. 32/1 Uppon peyne of forfaiture of the said Spiceries so yfound ungarbeled and unclensyd.
1483 Act 1 Rich. III c. xi. §1 They will not suffre any garbelyng of theym to be made but sell good and bad at so excessyf price togedyr ungarbeled.
1614 St. Papers, Col., E. Indies (1862) 294 20 bags of ungarbled pepper.
1649 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 5 Oct. 34 391 An Acte for liberty to transport spices vngarbled was this day read the third tyme.
1859 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 29 37 At the end of the rains..[the copal] is usually carried ungarbled to Zanzibar.
c1870 Townend & Co.'s Circular Col. & For. Produce at Coffee Mocha Coffee, ungarbled.
2. Of a fact or statement: Not mutilated or misrepresented.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > truthfulness, veracity > [adjective] > of statement: agreeing with reality
soothlyc888
soothfastc950
truea1250
very1303
strait1340
honesta1400
soothfulc1400
precisec1443
veritable1474
just1490
perfect1523
faithful1529
sincere1555
unmangled1557
truthful?1567
neat1571
oraculous1612
punctual1620
oracular1631
unvamped1639
strict1645
unembroidered1649
ungarbled1721
unexaggerated1770
veracious1777
unfictitious1835
unexaggeratinga1854
uncooked1860
1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (1726) xli. 213 Some future unprostituted, ungarbled history of a rebellion.
1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 116 A jury of the original, the constitutional, the ungarbled, the uncorrupted stamp.
1834 H. N. Coleridge Introd. Greek Poets (ed. 2) 141 It is not without parallel in the ungarbled writings of greater wits than Zoilus.
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