unavowed
Example Sentences
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Chirac's candidate, incumbent Assembly President Edgar Faure, 69, was pitted against Giscard's unavowed but clear choice, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 63.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his plays, the previously unmentionable was said; the formerly unavowed, acknowledged.
From Time Magazine Archive
The lovers did not long rest in that unavowed consciousness which left a shadow of doubt as to their reciprocal attachment.
From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by Jane West
This profligate sect is supposed to be numerous, though unavowed.
From Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India by Hargrave Jennings
Of the two oral exercises one was an overt, the other an unavowed repetition.
From Introduction to the Study of History by George Godfrey Berry
