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

Should he inspect each bud and flow'r, With close, unmeant, uncall'd-for look, And, by his analytic pow'r, Dissolve each charm of vale or brook?

From Canada and Other Poems by Young, T. F. (Thomas Frederick)

What words are these," she said, "that they pass thy lips so easily and so unmeant, perchance from long practice?

From She and Allan by Haggard, Henry Rider

A hot blush at his own unmeant impertinence thrills him from head to foot.

From Molly Bawn by Hamilton, Margaret Wolfe