unaroused

Example Sentences

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As a member of the avant-garde who is capable of perceiving the conspiracy before it is fully obvious to an as yet unaroused public, the paranoid is a militant leader.

From Salon • Aug. 18, 2019

No information has been passed and your nervous system is completely unaroused and uninformed.

From Slate • Nov. 27, 2015

Buried under these externalities the ego of her lay unaroused, an incalculable quantity.

From Big Timber A Story of the Northwest by Sinclair, Bertrand W.

What saved him, what made him possible for me, were those corners of his eyes—the humor and laughter and kindliness of the beast when unaroused.

From The Road by London, Jack

But there are sloughs of ignorance so deep That sect and rubric seem to fade away, Souls unaroused as yet from barbarous sleep That have not glimpsed the prospect of the day.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 28, 1914 by Various