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 cognizance ye mourn, Life's doom to feel, If I report it meetly, came unmeant, Emerging with blind gropes from impercipience By listless sequence—luckless, tragic Chance, In your more human tongue.

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas

He himself little knew the unmeant significance there was in the old Continental uniform he had worn to the dance.

From The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by Fox, John

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