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

For nothing stale—but that the imploring, aye, the commanding, unconscious desire, the unmeditated appeal, the unmeant urgency, of Margaret's heart might work.

From The Great Miss Driver by Hope, Anthony

If the breath     Be Life itself, and not its task and tent,   If even a soul like Milton's can know death;     O Man! thou vessel purposeless, unmeant,   Yet drone-hive strange of phantom purposes!

From Poems of Coleridge by Symons, Arthur

"You seldom can, dear, can you?" says Lady Chetwoode, mildly, with unmeant irony.

From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)