unmeant
Britishadjective
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.
"You seldom can, dear, can you?" says Lady Chetwoode, mildly, with unmeant irony.
From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)
Old Sapt broke it by saying sadly, yet with an unmeant drollery that set Fritz and me laughing: "Why didn't old Rudolf the Third marry your—great-grandmother, was it?"
From The Prisoner of Zenda by Hope, Anthony
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