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
To my mind there is something almost immoral in the custom which prevails of girls going out to India as paying-guests in the known, if unavowed, hope of securing a husband.
From Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly
It could not but be exciting to talk, as we talked, on the basis of those suppressed processes and unavowed references which made the meaning of our meeting so different from its form.
From The Sacred Fount by Henry James
If some of the other translations are less altered, the imitations and unavowed adaptations are much more so.
From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike
