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Unaccustomed

adjective

Not habituated to; unfamiliar with. Antonym: accustomed.

Not customary or usual. "Many varieties of unaccustomed foods" , "A new budget of unaccustomed austerity"

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"Unaccustomed" Quotes from Famous Books

... been promoted—or degraded—to her position in the household. It all depended upon the point of view; his grandmother maintaining that he should feel proud to have the chance of serving her, who was unable, or unaccustomed to serving herself, and he feeling that to be tied up in a girl's pinafore and with bared arms set to washing dishes, peeling potatoes, and scrubbing floors was a disgrace. In vain did the stately old gentlewoman show him by her example that one could cook and clean and still be dignified; her grandson ...

— The Brass Bound Box • Evelyn Raymond

... bad practice with those unaccustomed to corresponding is to fold the sheet of writing in such a fantastic manner as to cause the receiver much annoyance in opening it. To the sender it may appear a very ingenious performance, but to the receiver it is only a source of vexation and annoyance, and may prevent the communication ...

— Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners • B.G. Jefferis

... the sound of this, the sleeping crew are roused, jump from their beds, rush upon deck, and crowd into the boats. The alarm of "a fall," has a singular effect on the feelings of a sleeping person, unaccustomed to hearing it. It has often been mistaken as a cry of distress. A landsman, seeing the crew, on an occasion of a fall, leap into the boats in their shirts, imagined that the ship was sinking. He therefore tried to get into a boat himself, but every ...

— Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy • Anonymous

... with unaccustomed acquiescence, and Rachel went quickly to the window, where she read her letter by the fading gleams of twilight. It was very brief, and the writing was that of a man who holds a pen ...

— Further Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... thin air of high plateau is obstacle to efficient fuel combustion, as well as to physical activity by those unaccustomed to it from birth; ...

— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

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