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

But the kiss had been maudlin and unmeant; the court had not stirred at the false alarm; she must forevermore remain the Sleeping Beauty.

From The Four Million by Henry, O.

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

Gus had not too much sensitiveness in his character, but this unmeant insult stung him.

From Acton's Feud A Public School Story by Swainson, Frederick