English edit

Etymology edit

un- +‎ vetted

Adjective edit

unvetted (not comparable)

  1. Not vetted.
    • 2009 July 4, David Carr, “A Publisher Stumbles Publicly at the Post”, in New York Times[1]:
      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).
    • [2023 November 24, Rory Carroll, “‘Government is not listening’: anger over immigration spills into riot on Dublin’s streets”, in The Guardian[2], →ISSN:
      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”.]