unmeant

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

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)

There was another day of strife, another fight to be waged, one that could not be unmeant or unconscious.

From Second String by Hope, Anthony

The force and suddenness of his emotion and her own had overborne her into this strange unmeant confession; but her mood was unlike his,—it was merely receptive.

From "Le Monsieur de la Petite Dame" by Burnett, Frances Hodgson