Usage examples (19)

• "unballasted" road, can be left to the reader's imagination!
• The body loomed beside us like the rolling hull of an unballasted ship.
• It was a rickety concern, was unballasted, and looked as if, loosely thrown together, it had never filled its original mission and had been practically abandoned.
• Timid and irresolute Catharine, who desired to steer clear of the Scylla of Spanish intervention quite as much as of the Charybdis of Huguenot supremacy, trembled for the...