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

If some of the other translations are less altered, the imitations and unavowed adaptations are much more so.

From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.

When diplomatic relations were broken off, and war was finally declared, Germany was already the unavowed protectress of Russia.

From England and Germany by Hughes, William Morris

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 James, Henry