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- Here, at last, was progress, and Major Major threw himself into his new career with uninhibited gusto.†
Chpt 9 *uninhibited = acting naturally without being overly self-consciousstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uninhibited means not and reverses the meaning of inhibited. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- She was a worse dancer than even he was, but she threw herself about to the synthetic jitterbug music with more uninhibited pleasure than he had ever observed until he felt his legs falling asleep with boredom and yanked her off the dance floor toward the table at which the girl he should have been screwing was still sitting tipsily with one hand around Aarfy's neck, her orange satin blouse still hanging open slovenly below her full white lacy brassiere as she made dirty sex talk ostentatiously with Huple, Orr, Kid Sampson and Hungry Joe.†
Chpt 16
- He wanted to write urgent love letters to her all day long and crowd the endless pages with desperate, uninhibited confessions of his humble worship and need and with careful instructions for administering artificial respiration.†
Chpt 25
- 'Cruel?' asked Colonel Korn with cold good humor, frightened only momentarily by the uninhibited vehemence of Dunbar's hostility.†
Chpt 29
Definitions:
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(1)
(inhibit as in: inhibited the growth of...) to limit the activity of someone or something
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(inhibited as in: she is shy and inhibited) unable to act naturally due to being overly self-conscious
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)