Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See trammeled, trammeler.
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- verb UK Simple past tense and past participle of
trammel .
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Examples
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Otherwise, we are more trammelled by postcode than ever, which leads to "nicer" areas becoming even more desirable, and therefore more attractive to people who can shell out to get away from undesirable people and areas.
So You Think You Know About Britain? by Danny Dorling - review 2011
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In between, the volatile combination of trammelled adults and frustrated teenagers explodes in a firework display of pain and mutual miscomprehension.
Love, Love, Love - review Clare Brennan 2010
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If pro-lifers are going to the human rights tribunal to fight the withholding of the paltry sum of $232.00 based on a bias towards pro-lifers, then, I believe, pro-choicers should countersue on the basis of the impingement of their own religious rights which are being trammelled by pro-lifers. kfccanada says:
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Hence we are trammelled to be simple and the same.
The National Affront juliette 2009
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Than there was the Segregationist, violator of anarchist bomber rights, and the man who trammelled the liberties of violent communist Revolutionaries by deporting them back to Europe with no "due process"
"[T]he Obama administration may be attempting to appease its antiwar base ... or trying to look good for the chattering classes." Ann Althouse 2009
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She was not ill-tempered, nor very covetous — neither beat me nor starved me — but she was so completely trammelled by rank and prejudices, so awfully profound in genealogy, and so bitterly keen, poor lady, in
Redgauntlet 2008
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I can only assume that the multiple and discrete spheres of disco stick scrutiny are being inadequately trammelled by the blogosphere at large.
Archive 2008-11-01 Greg Tannahill 2008
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"Few regions on earth have had human rights trammelled so consistently as the Middle East - an area Robert Fisk has called home and reported on for more than 30 years," says AIANZ spokesperson Margaret Taylor.
Robert Fisk returning to New Zealand Joan Druett 2008
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He was too much engaged in his profession for me to intrude on him often, and perhaps his mind was too much trammelled with its details to permit his being willingly withdrawn from them.
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Progress trammelled is sickly, and is subject to these tragic epilepsies.
Les Miserables 2008
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