unmeant

Example Sentences

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But nothing in “Born to Run” rings to me as unmeant or punch-pulling.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2016

These poems are as heartless as birdsong, as unmeant as elm leaves, which, if they love, love only the wide blue sky and the air and the idea of elm leaves.

From The Guardian • Sep. 18, 2010

Surely an accident so opportune, a stroke of mercy and providence so unlikely--for the odds against the officer's presence were immense--could not be unmeant, could not be for nothing!

From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.

Forgive that I stir, Like a breath in thy hair, The old pain, 'Twas unmeant.

From English Poems by Le Gallienne, Richard

He himself little knew the unmeant significance there was in the old Continental uniform he had worn to the dance.

From The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by Fox, John