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
Never to screen Behind the unmeant word the sharp surprise Of cunning; never tell the little lies Of look or thought.
From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James
Beyond that, it had not prejudiced her against him, for there was a certain noble loftiness in her character which could largely forgive an unmeant wrong.
From Taquisara by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
Can man outwit Omnipotence? strike out 681 A self-wrought happiness unmeant by Him Who made us, and the world we would enjoy?
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward
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