Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not handled; not touched; not treated or managed.
- Not accustomed to being used; not trained or broken in.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not having been
handled . - adjective computing (Of an
event ,exception , etc.) Not having ahandler .
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Examples
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In addition, I handle "unhandled" errors in Application_Error and redirect the user to an
ASP.NET Forums 2009
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He was a seven-year-old, lonely donkey stallion named Charley who had been kept by himself in a pasture, virtually unhandled by people.
When Animals Speak Penelope Smith 2009
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Noonan began by noting that Sanford's rambling train wreck of a press conference showed him to be "touchingly unhandled."
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Then there is the surprise of the unhandled Al Gore, who, when left to his own devices, is an orator of extraordinary skill.
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His unhandled and unscripted take-no-prisoners defense in later hours was almost as reprehensible as his first gaffe.
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I was looking forward to RGTR for years, and even got in on the beta... software kept crashing with "unhandled exception."
Tabula Rasa 2007
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CARMICHAEL: In a Scientology wedding, the bride and the groom pledge to use communication to create understanding and to maintain understanding, to never go to bed with an upset, unhandled and communication broken.
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This could prove very dangerous since an undiscovered physical disease left unhandled could be fatal.
Depression Screening �� A Cruel Fraud; Exposing "National Depression Screening Day" 2006
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He scarce even obtained a kiss but what he ravished; I put his hand away twenty times from my breasts, where he had satisfied himself of their hardness and consistence, with passing for hitherto unhandled goods.
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And supposing it had indeed still been the book, secure in its beautiful coffin, carried across half the world unhandled and unread, for its value to a girl when she had reached marriageable age?
The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989
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