unavowed
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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
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
No formal overtures had been made; but Lord Rillingdon's house, Northcot Hall, was near, and the young people were permitted to improve their acquaintance into intimacy, and so an unavowed attachment was formed.
From Willing to Die by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Such cynical jokes would not be possible if they did not have an unavowed truth to reveal which we cannot admit when it is baldly and seriously stated.
From Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud
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