unpointed
Example Sentences
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At most there were some unpointed toes, some “oafishness,” to use Johnny Weir’s highly technical language, some uncoordinated twizzling, some wobbly, burning knees.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2014
Eight o'clock,—no more,—and yet it seemed to these men that they had plowed forever through the blackness of this evil night, through a hundred villainous shadows by unpointed paths.
From The Rose in the Ring by George Barr McCutcheon
More probably it simply means "number, weigh, divide"—the ambiguity being caused by the different possibilities of pointing and therefore of precisely interpreting these words, which were of course unpointed in the original.
From Introduction to the Old Testament by John Edgar McFadyen
There is a sending of a principle line of unpointed apples, and a target, a whole thing is no example.
From Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein
He noticed that she picked up the unpointed pencil and he felt a little desolate feeling, as if he had lost his only friend.
From Balloons by Elizabeth Bibesco
