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

The force and suddenness of his emotion and her own had overborne her into this strange unmeant confession; but her mood was unlike his,—it was merely receptive.

From "Le Monsieur de la Petite Dame" by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

You get some ladies together and badger them into all sorts of thoughtless, unmeant admissions and call that testimony!

From In the Onyx Lobby by Wells, Carolyn

A hot blush at his own unmeant impertinence thrills him from head to foot.

From Molly Bawn by Hamilton, Margaret Wolfe