Meanings
- not comparableNot vetted.
Amid the destruction on Thursday night there was some linguistic nuance, with “non-national” usually preferred to “foreigner”, and “unvetted” or “unregulated” preferred to “illegal”, and an aversion to the label “far right”.
[2023 November 24, Rory Carroll, “‘Government is not listening’: anger over immigration spills into riot on Dublin’s streets”, in The Guardian, →ISSN1 more example
Initially, the salon controversy — we won’t give it a “gate” suffix out of respect for the newspaper that established the term — was explained away as the unfortunate result of an unvetted brochure sent out by an overzealous marketing employee (later identified as Charles Pelton).
2009 July 4, David Carr, “A Publisher Stumbles Publicly at the Post”, in New York Times
Origin
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unvetted. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unvetted
“unvetted.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unvetted. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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