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

Meantime Dulce and Roger are sparring covertly, but decidedly, while Julia, who never sees anything, is fostering the dispute by unmeant, but most ill judging remarks.

From Portia or By Passions Rocked by Duchess

Many an unmeant melodrama was enacted under the walls of Union in MacKenzie's reign.

From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.

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)