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Harvey is a British novelist who has published four novels to critical acclaim but muted sales, and was well on her way to the uncoveted status of writer’s writer when in mid-2016, disaster struck.

From Washington Post • May 14, 2020

Reds Shortstop Davey Concepcion, uncoveted elsewhere, had his $900,000 rate cut to $350,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

Behold me and see How transfixed with the fang Of a fetter I hang On the high-jutting rocks of this fissure and keep An uncoveted watch o'er the world and the deep.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

No minister need come; nor need anything be said over me.—I tell you I have nearly attained my heaven; and that of others is altogether unvalued and uncoveted by me.’

From Wuthering Heights by Brontë, Emily

They took it in turns, each slipping by chance into that onerous position, supported but uncoveted by the other.

From A Prisoner in Fairyland by Blackwood, Algernon