Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not forgiven; not pardoned.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not forgiven.
  • noun Those who cannot be forgiven

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Examples

  • Yes | No | Report from billy bob wrote 1 year 32 weeks ago unforgiven is by far the best western movie ever made!!!

    Best Western (Not the Motel) 2008

  • In the event, Dudley and Betsy did reconcile, reluctantly, and Doris remained unforgiven, which is why Doris and Billy found themselves a few months later in Cockeysville, at Broadmead, not far from Overlea.

    Sympathy 2009

  • He imagines the undoing of all that he has accomplished -- sees unions unsundered, baptisms nullified, those who confessed to him once again unforgiven.

    The Last Report On The Miracles At Little No Horse: Summary and book reviews of The Last Report On The Miracles At Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich. 2001

  • As a result I was labelled unforgiven, pariah, evil, not nice, irrelevant.

    "BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader Dark Daughta 2010

  • Fantastic. craigger and I slept in, and when I woke up I had a horrid hangover. then I had to watch star trek and listen to craig jam out to Metallica's "unforgiven" ... which I still haven't really forgiven him for. we went to the Western for breakfast, where we both had lunch items.

    withkerth Diary Entry withkerth 2004

  • It's as though James Hetfield wanted to write a One-style epic and got bogged down with the guitar solo and just put some words over the top of it to the effect that whoever it is he's talking to - he doesn't specify - is unforgiven.

    Loveletters Joshua Moses 2011

  • The worst we can do is to take these bags bursting with old grudges, unforgiven acts or unmerciful attitudes with us into the new year.

    Reverend William E. Flippin, Jr.: It's Time To Lose Our Luggage Jr. Reverend William E. Flippin 2011

  • The worst we can do is to take these bags bursting with old grudges, unforgiven acts or unmerciful attitudes with us into the new year.

    Reverend William E. Flippin, Jr.: It's Time To Lose Our Luggage Jr. Reverend William E. Flippin 2011

  • The worst we can do is to take these bags bursting with old grudges, unforgiven acts or unmerciful attitudes with us into the new year.

    Reverend William E. Flippin, Jr.: It's Time To Lose Our Luggage Jr. Reverend William E. Flippin 2011

  • I flailed desperate and blind until, dizzy, I crumpled to the ice unforgiven as the drunk beneath the bridge.

    Level Shilo Morlang 2012

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