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UNUSED TO
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Infrequently exposed to
Example:
feet unused to shoes
Classified under:
Similar:
unaccustomed to (not habituated to; unfamiliar with)
Context examples:
It made me very uncomfortable to have him for a guest, for I was young then, and unused to disguise what I so strongly felt.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
On the contrary, she was so totally unused to have her pleasure consulted, or to have anything take place at all in the way she could desire, that she was more disposed to wonder and rejoice in having carried her point so far, than to repine at the counteraction which followed.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Brocklehurst and his family never came near Lowood now: household matters were not scrutinised into; the cross housekeeper was gone, driven away by the fear of infection; her successor, who had been matron at the Lowton Dispensary, unused to the ways of her new abode, provided with comparative liberality.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I had become, in the Murdstone and Grinby time, however short or long it may have been, so unused to the sports and games of boys, that I knew I was awkward and inexperienced in the commonest things belonging to them.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Curiosity and vanity were both engaged, and the temptation of immediate pleasure was too strong for a mind unused to make any sacrifice to right: he resolved to defer his Norfolk journey, resolved that writing should answer the purpose of it, or that its purpose was unimportant, and staid.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Your garb and manner were restricted by rule; your air was often diffident, and altogether that of one refined by nature, but absolutely unused to society, and a good deal afraid of making herself disadvantageously conspicuous by some solecism or blunder; yet when addressed, you lifted a keen, a daring, and a glowing eye to your interlocutor's face: there was penetration and power in each glance you gave; when plied by close questions, you found ready and round answers.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But she was so wholly unused to confer favours, except on the very poor, so unpractised in removing evils, or bestowing kindnesses among her equals, and so fearful of appearing to elevate herself as a great lady at home, that it took some time to determine that it would not be unbecoming in her to make such a present.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
