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

He sang it with real passion, and produced, exactly where he wished, a strange but unavowed sensation.

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

He seemed to labour under an unavowed impression of the share which the declamatory zeal of his party had to lay to its charge in the national peril.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

This could have been construed as a hint to Burr to give up his unavowed hopes of becoming President.

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert