Example Sentences

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In this way, national narcissism parallels individual narcissism as a predictor of interpersonal aggression and retaliation if the narcissist feels threatened, unadmired, or unrecognized.

From Scientific American • Jan. 29, 2019

Unless a man is constantly at full attention, you feel unadmired and unloved.

From Slate • Oct. 1, 2013

A bilious tract written in 1604 by King James I of Great Britain has made that widely unadmired monarch a belated hero to certain Americans in 1976.

From Time Magazine Archive

No flower of the field or of the ocean that came within the ken of Wallace, wasted its sweetness unadmired.

From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane

Oh, had I rather unadmired remain'd In some lone isle, or distant northern land; Where the gilt chariot never marks the way, Where none learn ombre, none e'er taste bohea!

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Gilfillan, George