unbefriended

Example Sentences

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No one who cares for the past of the University should think without pity and friendliness of this lonely scholar, who in his lifetime was unpitied and unbefriended.

From Oxford by Lang, Andrew

“That is one thing sure; but I have seen this, Nanna: that the wicked is unbefriended in his death-pang.”

From Prisoners of Conscience by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

She replaced the orchids, deciding it was best to appear alone and unbefriended before Peavey.

From The Salamander by Johnson, Owen

Heavens! was he turning soft-hearted at his time of life, that he should feel so unaccountably stirred by the bare act of coming to visit this ailing and unbefriended stranger?

From The Sign of the Spider by Mitford, Bertram

Participles, or participial adjectives, reversed in sense by the prefix un; as, unaspiring, unavailing, unbelieving, unbattered, uninjured, unbefriended.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold