Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not pregnant; not quickened: with of.
- Not quick of wit; dull.
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- adjective Not
pregnant .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A blown up stomach shot shows a flat, unpregnant stomach.
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I am so sick of hearing that another pink man has dropped his children out a window, off a bridge or killed his pregnant wife or killed his unpregnant wife because he was infatuated with another pregnant woman.
Tired of pink men. Ann Althouse 2009
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We should be focusing on keeping kids in school and unpregnant, then everything else will take care of itself.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Crime and punishment, race and class 2009
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I am so sick of hearing that another pink man has dropped his children out a window, off a bridge or killed his pregnant wife or killed his unpregnant wife because he was infatuated with another pregnant woman.
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"I think for readers to be interested in a star's pregnancy they have to have liked her and care about her unpregnant."
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Now that she's the first line on a hitlist recently distributed to an elite Vatican strike force though, she better think of a way to unpregnant herself really fast.
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All they need to do is change it to "not unpregnant."
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Farmers at England's Eden Ostrich World were shocked when Tilly, a seemingly unpregnant Shetland pony, suddenly dropped her striped offspring.
Newsmakers 2007
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If the analogy did somehow apply, the male would be liable for the price of what it takes to return the female to her prior, undamaged, unpregnant state, the price of an abortion.
Choice For Men: Do Feminists and Pro-Lifers Make The Same Argument? 2005
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Being pregnant with twins or more! one minute and becoming “unpregnant” in the next can be a smooth transition for some and wreak havoc on others.
Mothering Twins LINDA ALBI 1993
yarb commented on the word unpregnant
Scipio, though neither dull nor muddy-mettled, began to be unpregnant of this defeated cause. Yet he was not so pigeon-livered as to retire without an effort in my favour.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 9 ch. 8
October 8, 2008