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unfamiliarity

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Most of the observers were young and seemed unfamiliar with election law, but they lodged complaints anyway, Kemp said.

Whatever the reason, Lynchburg’s flip has given local Democrats an unfamiliar spring in their step.

The first planets discovered outside our solar system were strange, unfamiliar worlds.

There’s a sense of teasing wonderment in the way the Koappites rename each unfamiliar piece of fruit.

Many of the options in Atlanta she’s found are smoked or barbecued, a treatment for the holiday bird that’s unfamiliar to the New York native.

Political change is accelerating at the speed of technology, adding unfamiliarity and uncertainty into the mix of things to fear.

A suggestion of what may happen is perhaps already to be found in the general unfamiliarity of scholars with these dictionaries.

I have remarked upon the unfamiliarity of modern students of theology with Peignot's term thologie positive.

Or, as Aristotle had said long before, there must be "a certain admixture of unfamiliarity," a continual slight novelty.

Whether from an unfamiliarity with wild men, or from some other reason, this creature proved offensive to him.

Our little heads would swim in the sickness of our unfamiliarity.

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On this page you'll find 48 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to unfamiliarity, such as: bewilderment, blindness, callowness, crudeness, darkness, and denseness.

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

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