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unused

/ʌnˈjuzd/ adjective B1
  1. Not used. · I have two unused vouchers for a free meal.
  2. Not accustomed (to), unfamiliar with. · I am unused to the dark nights of the countryside.
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Marilla made no reply, but she hit the unlucky sorrel such a vicious clip with the whip that the fat mare, unused to such treatment, whizzed indignantly down the lane at an alarming pace.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 46 · C1
Again Holmes flattened out the paper upon his unused plate.
The Valley of Fear, p. 3 · C1
The kitchen at Green Gables was a cheerful apartment--or would have been cheerful if it had not been so painfully clean as to give it something of the appearance of an unused parlor.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 4 · C1

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