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
True, many of them are unavowed Freethinkers, yet they are of our party although they do not wear our colors.
From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)
I lingered at the gates, going from one to the other, in the unavowed hope, little idiot that I was, of seeing Joanna.
From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John
Further progress has made children more and more expensive, down to our own times, when "neomalthusianism," although unavowed, exists in fact as a compromise between egoism and child rearing.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
