unavowed
Example Sentences
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In his plays, the previously unmentionable was said; the formerly unavowed, acknowledged.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
These secret and unavowed alliances transfigure the unlovely streets, and light in the cavernous blank houses many a glowing and familiar hearth.
From Apologia Diffidentis by Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock)
He sang it with real passion, and produced, exactly where he wished, a strange but unavowed sensation.
From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
Then something happened which quite curiously quickened Godfrey Pavely's unavowed feeling for Katty.
From Love and hatred by Lowndes, Marie Belloc
