unavowed

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

That is an unnecessary confession, but I could not be satisfied to insert the record here, with my vanity unavowed.

From The Promised Land by Antin, Mary

It had been a very short attack of actual illness, but disease had long been secretly preying on her—and her asperity of disposition might be accounted for by constant unavowed suffering. 

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

He sang it with real passion, and produced, exactly where he wished, a strange but unavowed sensation.

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan