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
The passion with which van den Ende's daughter had agitated him had been wisely mastered, unavowed.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
These secret and unavowed alliances transfigure the unlovely streets, and light in the cavernous blank houses many a glowing and familiar hearth.
From Apologia Diffidentis by O. M. (Ormonde Maddock) Dalton
When diplomatic relations were broken off, and war was finally declared, Germany was already the unavowed protectress of Russia.
From England and Germany by William Morris Hughes
