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

There was another day of strife, another fight to be waged, one that could not be unmeant or unconscious.

From Second String by Hope, Anthony

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

Old Sapt broke it by saying sadly, yet with an unmeant drollery that set Fritz and me laughing: "Why didn't old Rudolf the Third marry your—great-grandmother, was it?"

From The Prisoner of Zenda by Hope, Anthony