Definitions
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- adjective rare Having no parent, or no acknowledged parent.
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- adjective Having no
parent , or noacknowledged parent.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having no parent or parents or not cared for by parent surrogates
Etymologies
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Examples
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The emergent consensus is that there was not even a higher political or social purpose behind what happened: it was mindless, feral youths and gangs – their members unparented – looting for the flat-screen TVs and trainers to which they wrongly felt entitled.
UK riots: Our wounded nation will not be healed by vengeful gestures | Will Hutton and Henry Porter 2011
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But others say a needed transition is under way, and that international adoption should be the last resort for finding homes for unparented children.
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But others say a needed transition is under way, and that international adoption should be the last resort for finding homes for unparented children.
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But others say a needed transition is under way, and that international adoption should be the last resort for finding homes for unparented children.
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To raise the funds, Brockwell cleans out his anti-capitalist collective's war chest, fills his pockets with drugs and takes leave of his squat: "an early twenty-first English household – which is to say a tri-sexual household of unparented narcissists where, in the twenty minutes I was there, cash and products were transacted four ways to a sum of four hundred pounds, and no fewer than five laws were broken".
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The parents of these "kids", acting as uneducated, unparented adults should be part of this problem, since they don't seem to be part of the solution!
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They're primarily the lost legions of the uneducated, unparented, abused, and mentally deficient.
Paul White: 750,000 Known Terrorists in the U.S. and We're Worrying About the Middle East? 2008
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The kids unparented are -- to me, that's a form of child abuse.
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And much quotation on a page makes it like a foundling hospital -- sentences unparented, ideas abandoned of their proper text.
Journeys to Bagdad 1906
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But all should recognize the need similarly to address the invisible but all-too-real permanent humanitarian crisis afflicting unparented children worldwide.
HLS News 2010
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