unsullied

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Even in these cases, a particular moral clarity persists: War may be terrible, egos corrupt and violence seductive, but there’s always at least one character whose vision remains unsullied.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

He describes a large rustic loaf “held close to the heart,” sliced toward the body in a communal sacrament, representing an elemental and ancient loaf unsullied by ultra-processing or bleached flour.

From Slate • Mar. 15, 2025

Recent histories of the Blackwells and the Grimkes have expanded our understanding of how progress is rarely spurred by a single, unsullied person; it takes a multiplicity.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2024

It is the fantasy of an impermeable barrier that allows one’s purity to remain unsullied.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2024

If “forest primeval” means woodland unsullied by the human presence, Denevan has written, there was much more of it in the nineteenth century than in the seventeenth.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann