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

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

A hot blush at his own unmeant impertinence thrills him from head to foot.

From Molly Bawn by Hamilton, Margaret Wolfe

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