unavowed
- a word derived from avowed.
Example Sentences
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In his plays, the previously unmentionable was said; the formerly unavowed, acknowledged.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chirac's candidate, incumbent Assembly President Edgar Faure, 69, was pitted against Giscard's unavowed but clear choice, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 63.
From Time Magazine Archive
He seemed to labour under an unavowed impression of the share which the declamatory zeal of his party had to lay to its charge in the national peril.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
Our relation was consequently one of those unavowed affairs in which triviality is the only alternative to tragedy.
From The Long Run 1916 by Wharton, Edith
It was no difficult matter for McClure to possess himself of the unavowed reason of my Lord Wargrove's ardent search for a carriage and horses.
From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
