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Unfixed

adjective

Not firmly placed or set or fastened.

Lacking definition or definite content. Synonym: nebulous. "Unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to be"

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"Unfixed" Quotes from Famous Books

... our minds, but in the course of a week or two we unfixed them several times to allow the consideration of places, which otherwise would have been out of range; and during one of these intervals of mental disfixment we ...

— Rudder Grange • Frank R. Stockton

... trust to a low political ambition. You cannot serve a political end by committing a wrong without inflicting a moral degradation on some one. Political intrigue begets laxity of habits; it dispels that integrity without which the unfixed mind becomes vicious; it acts as a festering sore in ...

— Justice in the By-Ways - A Tale of Life • F. Colburn Adams

... Unfixed as Catherine's general notions were of a what a man ought to be, she could not entirely repress a doubt of Mr. John Thorpe's being altogether completely agreeable. A tattler and a swaggerer, having elicited, as he thought, from Catherine that she was the destined ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol. I • Various

... William the Third, has been known among us by the French name of bayonet. The bayonet seems not to have been then so formidable an instrument of destruction as it has since become; for it was inserted in the muzzle of the gun; and in action much time was lost while the soldier unfixed his bayonet in order to fire, and fixed it again in order to charge. The dragoon, when dismounted, fought ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 1 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... I give if I was a square man, and how happy I could be with such a woman as my wife. I did not tell her my business, for fear she would think less of me. I could not endure the deception, so after three days of happiness I tore myself away, feeling as if I was "unfixed for life." In a short time she visited relatives in New Orleans, and sent me an invitation to call; but as I was acquainted with her friends, the same old dread came upon me, so I declined, with the excuse that I was compelled to leave the city the same evening on the steamer Judge McLean. ...

— Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi • George H. Devol

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