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
No formal overtures had been made; but Lord Rillingdon's house, Northcot Hall, was near, and the young people were permitted to improve their acquaintance into intimacy, and so an unavowed attachment was formed.
From Willing to Die by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
True, many of them are unavowed Freethinkers, yet they are of our party although they do not wear our colors.
From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote
This could have been construed as a hint to Burr to give up his unavowed hopes of becoming President.
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard
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