unmeant
Britishadjective
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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
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 Edward Young
"She is insensible," was the reply—a reply of unmeant cruelty.
From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest
If the breath Be Life itself, and not its task and tent, If even a soul like Milton's can know death; O Man! thou vessel purposeless, unmeant, Yet drone-hive strange of phantom purposes!
From Poems of Coleridge by Arthur Symons
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