scatheless

comparative more scatheless · superlative most scatheless · alternative scathless

1. Without scathe or harm; without mischief, injury, or damage; unharmed.

   The houses round about have fared better, in the main, than the mill, though none of them has come scatheless out of the fight.

   1915, Irvin S. Cobb, Paths of Glory

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   He felt like a man who has just come scatheless through some horrible crisis, and once more knows the sweet sensation of safety.

   1884, H. Rider Haggard, Dawn

   With the exception, perhaps, of Great Britain, whose privileged insular situation, enormous mercantile navy and flourishing trade in coal have enabled her to resume her pre-war economic existence almost entirely, no country has emerged scatheless from the War. The rates of exchange soar daily to fantastic heights, and insuperable barriers to the commerce of European nations are being created.

   1922, Francesco Saverio Nitti, Peaceless Europe

   Synonyms: unscathed