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adj. - Not invited or requested.

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Usage examples (35)
  • Keats who seems to emerge unbidden from the shadows, as if the act of gazing into the darkness brought him to the surface.
  • A waiter, again unbidden, brought the chessboard and the current issue of the Times, with the page turned down at the chess problem.
  • It regarded her arrogantly, and gave its odd name unbidden, and commanded her to come; these were not things Myrddraal did with the Chosen.
  • A word rose unbidden to his lips.
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