unavowed

Example Sentences

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In his plays, the previously unmentionable was said; the formerly unavowed, acknowledged.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chirac's candidate, incumbent Assembly President Edgar Faure, 69, was pitted against Giscard's unavowed but clear choice, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 63.

From Time Magazine Archive

True, many of them are unavowed Freethinkers, yet they are of our party although they do not wear our colors.

From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)

The passion with which van den Ende's daughter had agitated him had been wisely mastered, unavowed.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel

They did not offer each other of their casks, they simply cast sympathetic glances, seized with the unavowed desire to taste their neighbor's liquor, which might possibly be better.

From The Fête At Coqueville 1907 by Meyer, L. G.