fettered
IPA: fˈɛtɝd
adjective
- Bound by chains or shackles.
- (by extension) Restricted.
- (zoology) Of the feet: bent backward and apparently unfit for walking.
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Examples of "fettered" in Sentences
- Though 'fettered' slave be none, her floors and soil
- It was a little like betting on a fixed (or even "fettered") race.
- And they call US ridiculous ... was "fettered" by government regulation.
- The spluttering defensiveness, the creepy vindictiveness, all signs of a brain fettered with incipient rot.
- He was a Caliban, a monstrous phantom, fettered to him for untold ages, the penalty of some forgotten crime.
- It would be interesting to see how well she'd compete against such "fettered" rivals as Germany, France and even Italy.
- Anyone who says that the industry is 'fettered' by too much regulation and government interference, needs a swift kick in the ass!
- I mean, sure, Verizon provided the government spy agencies "fettered" access to my private, confidential, personal phone records that they were supposed to keep to themselves for the past many years that I've been a Verizon customers - and they didn't.
- This pedantry of costume and the circumspect carriage which it exacted, were pleasantly contrasted with the flowing vivacity of the wearer, engendering by their concourse an amusing compound, which I might call a fettered and pinioned alacrity of demeanor, the rigid stateliness of exterior seeming rather ineffectually to encase, as a half-bursting chrysalis, the wings of a gay nature.
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