unmellowed

comparative more unmellowed · superlative most unmellowed

1. Not mellowed.

   ‘What do you think he meant, moron?’ asked Dover, apparently quite unmellowed by Mrs Boyle’s medicinal whisky.

   1970, Joyce Porter, chapter 10, in Dover Strikes Again, New York: David McKay, published 1973, page 154

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   Yet hath Sir Proteus, for that’s his name, Made use and fair advantage of his days; His years but young, but his experience old; His head unmellow’d, but his judgment ripe;

   c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]

   I was afraid she would think it queer of me to give her such a present. And yet somehow it seemed to me that it was better than something brand new and unmellowed—that old book which father had loved and which I loved.

   1906 December 15, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Clorinda’s Gifts”, in The Epworth Herald, volume 17, number 29, page 732

   The room gives off an air of clean spareness. The roof rafters are exposed, and the wood colors are raw and unmellowed.

   1953, Arthur Miller, The Crucible, New York: Bantam, published 1959, act 1, page 1