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

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

Can man outwit Omnipotence? strike out 681 A self-wrought happiness unmeant by Him Who made us, and the world we would enjoy?

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward