unpronounced
Example Sentences
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The lawlessness of pop was fun and unpronounced.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2015
Later Sumerian cuneiform did become capable of rendering prose, but it did so by the messy system that I’ve already described, with mixtures of logograms, phonetic signs, and unpronounced determinatives totaling hundreds of separate signs.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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It is true, these notices, and various others, drop along so quiet and unpronounced, as hardly to arrest the reader's attention.
From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman
The whole plot generally turns on an unpronounced word, which is always at the tongue's end, and which is frequently kept back in a pretty arbitrary manner.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John
Though our travelling life continued still, my father stopped oftener and longer in London than in any other place, as though yielding to the unpronounced pressure of his son.
From The Bride of Dreams by Auw, Mellie von