unplumbered

unplumbered adjective: not plumbered.

Adjective

unplumbered (not comparable)

(informal, rare) Not plumbered.
- Her picture of the corruption of politics (for young ladies at that time encountered most formidable rivals in the professional politicians who made the gratuitous task of serving on district school boards the stepping-stone to higher things), her description of the homes on which the light of a...1904 January, L. R. Elder, “Miss Dodd on the School Board”, in The Century Magazine, volume LXVII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 341, column 2
- Mr. Stuart Chase has touched upon the problem in his sug: gestive book Men and Machines. But the difficulty does not lie chiefly with mechanical appliances: it lies rather with the mechanical spirit, the spirit of standardisation, and that seems inseparable from a normal, harmonious, classical...1930 August, Albert Guérard, “Graphopolis—a Utopia for Literature”, in The Nineteenth Century and After, volume CVIII, number DCXLII, London: Constable & Company […], →OCLC, page 256

Arcadian simplicity may be as tedious and stifling as the zippy atmosphere of Zenith; indeed, Sheila Kaye-Smith has found unplumbed stupidity in unplumbered villages.1930 August, Albert Guérard, “Graphopolis—a Utopia for Literature”, in The Nineteenth Century and After, volume CVIII, number DCXLII...
Situations are routine, but the unplumbered and therefore overflooded bathroom and the finger jammed into the firehose nozzle provide laughter because of treatment by veterans of the comedy field.1932 September 17, “Union Wages”, in Martin Quigley, editor, Motion Picture Herald, volume 108, number 12, New York, N.Y.: Quigley...
[P]ublic toilets that . . . surely merit an Oscar of a kind for sheer inadequacy and unplumbered primitiveness.1985 May 17, Richard Foley, “Medjugorje Revisited”, in Catholic Herald, London, →ISSN, →OCLC; quoted in Kevin Devlin, “The Virgin of...

From un- + plumbered.

What does unplumbered mean?: Unplumbered means not plumbered.
How do you use unplumbered in a sentence?: Arcadian simplicity may be as tedious and stifling as the zippy atmosphere of Zenith; indeed, Sheila Kaye-Smith has found unplumbed stupidity in unplumbered villages.
What part of speech is unplumbered?: Unplumbered is an adjective.

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