unavowed

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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

Of the two oral exercises one was an overt, the other an unavowed repetition.

From Introduction to the Study of History by Berry, George Godfrey

Salabert had time still to pay one of those unavowed visits which form an item in the social round of many a man whose virtues are more conspicuous, and whose vices less blatant than his.

From Froth by Palacio Vald?s, Armando

When diplomatic relations were broken off, and war was finally declared, Germany was already the unavowed protectress of Russia.

From England and Germany by Hughes, William Morris