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

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

Further progress has made children more and more expensive, down to our own times, when "neomalthusianism," although unavowed, exists in fact as a compromise between egoism and child rearing.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

It was no difficult matter for McClure to possess himself of the unavowed reason of my Lord Wargrove's ardent search for a carriage and horses.

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)