Meanings
comparative more uncheered · superlative most uncheered
- Not cheered; left unhappy or desolate.
Uncheered by friends, unhissed by foes, the honorable member blandly continued his speech […]
1872, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, The Unkind Word, and Other Stories, page 1451 more example
And now the time of tide has come; the ship casts off her cables; and from the deserted wharf the uncheered ship for Tarshish, all careening, glides to sea.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 9, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC - Not cheered or applauded.
Origin
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