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

The cognizance ye mourn, Life's doom to feel, If I report it meetly, came unmeant, Emerging with blind gropes from impercipience By listless sequence—luckless, tragic Chance, In your more human tongue.

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas

Meantime Dulce and Roger are sparring covertly, but decidedly, while Julia, who never sees anything, is fostering the dispute by unmeant, but most ill judging remarks.

From Portia or By Passions Rocked by Duchess

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