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
He himself little knew the unmeant significance there was in the old Continental uniform he had worn to the dance.
From The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by Fox, John
A hot blush at his own unmeant impertinence thrills him from head to foot.
From Molly Bawn by Hamilton, Margaret Wolfe
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 Hope, Anthony
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