unvetted
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.53 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not vetted.
Example Sentences
- "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)."
- "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”."
Etymology
From un- + vetted.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un