unspoiled

(ʌnˈspɔɪld) or

unspoilt

adj

(of a village, town, etc) having an unaltered character

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Adj.	1.	unspoiled - not left to spoil; "the meat is still good" undecomposed, unspoilt, good fresh - recently made, produced, or harvested; "fresh bread"; "a fresh scent"; "fresh lettuce"
	2.	unspoiled - not decayed or decomposed uncorrupted incorrupt - free of corruption or immorality; "a policeman who was incorrupt and incorruptible"

unspoiled

unspoilt

adjective

1. unchanged, preserved, untouched, perfect, intact, unaffected, unharmed, undamaged, unblemished, unimpaired I made the offshore trip to the unspoiled island of Cozumel.
unchanged changed, touched, affected, damaged, harmed, spoilt, impaired, imperfect, blemished

2. natural, unaffected, unassuming, innocent, wholesome, artless, unstudied the world's most unspoiled pop kids

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Translations

unspoiled

[ˈʌnˈspɔɪld] unspoilt [ˈʌnˈspɔɪlt] ADJ [place] → que no ha perdido su belleza natural; [child] → nada mimado
unspoiled by tourism → no echado a perder por el turismo
to remain unspoiled → conservar la belleza natural

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unspoiled

[ˌʌnˈspɔɪld] unspoilt [ʌnˈspɔɪlt] (British) adj [town, port] → authentique; [island, countryside] → épargné(e) par l'homme
the unspoiled island of Cozumel → l'île parfaitement préservée de Cozumel

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unspoiled

, unspoilt

adj

person, fruit → unverdorben; goods → unbeschädigt; child → nicht verwöhnt

(= unchanged: by tourism, civilization) → unberührt; to remain unspoilt → unberührt bleiben

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unspoiled

[ʌnˈspɔɪld] unspoilt [ʌnˈspɔɪlt] adj (countryside, beauty) → non deturpato/a; (child) → non viziato/a; (person) → genuino/a

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It was a fair highway, through the Land of Lost Delight; shadow and sunshine were blessedly mingled, and every turn and dip revealed a fresh charm and a new loveliness to eager hearts and unspoiled eyes.

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He hated the shams and the hypocrisies of it and with the clear vision of an unspoiled mind he had penetrated to the rotten core of the heart of the thing--the cowardly greed for peace and ease and the safe-guarding of property rights.

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Always mature for her age, she had gained a certain aplomb in both carriage and conversation, which made her seem more of a woman of the world than she was, but her old petulance now and then showed itself, her strong will still held its own, and her native frankness was unspoiled by foreign polish.

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To this place there came every day many hundreds of wagonloads of garbage and trash from the lake front, where the rich people lived; and in the heaps the children raked for food--there were hunks of bread and potato peelings and apple cores and meat bones, all of it half frozen and quite unspoiled. Little Juozapas gorged himself, and came home with a newspaper full, which he was feeding to Antanas when his mother came in.

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"My what?" insisted Meriem, far too unsophisticated in her unspoiled innocence to guess what the Hon.

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Her very savagery appealed to me, for it is the savagery of unspoiled Nature.

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You were the most unspoiled creature in the whole world.

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The boy went like a bullet through the tangle of this tale of crooked politics and crazy mockery and came out on the other side, pursuing his own unspoiled purposes.

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Here and there it sprouts out into modernity, but at heart it is still unspoiled; it is full of curious relics, and haloed by the romance of many legends of the past.

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There was good stuff in Polly, unspoiled as yet, and Miss Mills was only acting out her principle of women helping each other.

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'When I add, I can discern for myself what the general tongue says of you--that you are quite unspoiled by Fortune, and not uplifted--I trust you will not, as a man of an open nature, suspect that I mean to flatter you, but will believe that all I mean is to excuse myself, these being my only excuses for my present intrusion.'

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Her glance was as direct and trustful as that of a young man yet unspoiled by the world's wise lessons.

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