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

Should he inspect each bud and flow'r, With close, unmeant, uncall'd-for look, And, by his analytic pow'r, Dissolve each charm of vale or brook?

From Canada and Other Poems by Young, T. F. (Thomas Frederick)

I think myself that she was dishonoring the memory of her father ten thousand times more than any chance and unmeant word of the speakers could possibly have done.

From Four Girls at Chautauqua by Pansy

Never to screen Behind the unmeant word the sharp surprise Of cunning; never tell the little lies Of look or thought.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James