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

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.

The force and suddenness of his emotion and her own had overborne her into this strange unmeant confession; but her mood was unlike his,—it was merely receptive.

From "Le Monsieur de la Petite Dame" by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

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