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shielded

adjective as in armored

adjective as in cloistered

adjective as in leeward

adjective as in sacred

adjective as in secure

adjective as in veiled

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He could have pleaded guilty to one felony count and shielded his wife and family from having to air their dirty laundry.

So long as Arnot shielded Steck, Tashi would have to be careful.

He can only guess that his beloved pianos shielded him as they were thrown up onto their sides.

Since then, he has spent most of his time in the affable fog of extreme old age, almost entirely shielded from public view.

But on campus, one was mostly shielded from music made of a mixture of terrible hairspray and worse guitar solos.

She thrust a bare, white arm from the curtain which shielded her open door, and received the cup from his hands.

The assistant unless thus shielded must answer for his own misconduct.

She had been my father's wife, and the sacredness of his name shielded her from disrespect.

No Mycenaean work of art shows us a shielded man in a chariot; the men with the monstrous shields are always depicted on foot.

He is so mild-eyed and soft of speech that one feels that he has been shielded from rude contact with the world.

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On this page you'll find 195 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shielded, such as: bulletproof, protected, indestructible, invulnerable, ironclad, and steel-plated.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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