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unredressed
adjective
formaluk /ˌʌn.rɪˈdrest/ us /ˌʌn.rɪˈdrest/
If something wrong that has been done is unredressed, nothing is done to put it right:
In the absence of independent advocates, rights would go unprotected and wrongs unredressed.
Wrong conduct of a public authority too often goes unredressed.
Related word
redress
Whoever is behind this believes that he has unredressed grievances with the government.
This is a grievance which has too long remained unredressed.
Such violations of human dignity go unredressed if the perpetrators are in a position of privilege such that wealth and power enable them to avoid scrutiny.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Correcting and mending
calibration
clean (someone/something) up
correction
fiddle (around) with something
fine-tune
mess
reconstruct
reconstruction
recover
rectifiable
rectification
refine
remedy
revised
scratch
set/put the record straightidiom
smooth something away
smoothen
sort
sort something out
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