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

It had been a very short attack of actual illness, but disease had long been secretly preying on her—and her asperity of disposition might be accounted for by constant unavowed suffering. 

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Another objection is that Freud overdoes the Unconscious; suppressed wishes are usually not so unconscious as he describes them; they are unavowed, unnamed, unanalyzed, but conscious for all that.

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.

Salabert had time still to pay one of those unavowed visits which form an item in the social round of many a man whose virtues are more conspicuous, and whose vices less blatant than his.

From Froth by Palacio Vald?s, Armando