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
Nay, frustrate Hope art thou, of the Unknown, Gathered from primal mist and firmament; A surging shape of Life's unfathomed moan, Whelming humanity with fears unmeant.
From Song-Surf by Cale Young Rice
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 Anthony Hope
What words are these," she said, "that they pass thy lips so easily and so unmeant, perchance from long practice?
From She and Allan by Henry Rider Haggard
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