unpronounced
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The lawlessness of pop was fun and unpronounced.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2015
Later Sumerian cuneiform did become capable of rendering prose, but it did so by the messy system that I’ve already described, with mixtures of logograms, phonetic signs, and unpronounced determinatives totaling hundreds of separate signs.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The whole plot generally turns on an unpronounced word, which is always at the tongue's end, and which is frequently kept back in a pretty arbitrary manner.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by John Black
The actions concerned in the rendering of a monologue are those associated with the every-day intercourse of men in conversation, and are often so delicate and unpronounced that an auditor will hardly notice them.
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry
If the sky turquoise was a shade or two paler than the prescribed robin's-egg, it blended perfectly with the unpronounced greens of the sprouting grass and the uncertain olive of the budding sagebrush.
From The Song of the Wolf by Frank Mayer
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