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单词 unavowed
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Definition of unavowed in English:

unavowed

adjectiveʌnəˈvaʊd
  • Not openly or publicly declared; unstated.

    an underlying, unavowed hostility
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is implied, however, that this is never more than a pretence, a cover, behind which he conceals his unavowed determination to remain at a stage from which he could, if he chose, release himself.
    • The real, though typically unavowed, function of the sceptic's apparently naked challenges is to raise the level of the debate in just this way.
    • The dialogue is arch but only rarely clever; the atmosphere is rife with unavowed incestuous homosexuality.
    • Even when such witnesses could be portrayed as acknowledging this inadequacy with what narratology calls ‘modal locutions’ such as ‘I seemed to hear’ or ‘I perceived,’ these, according to Knight, must be read as ‘unavowed paralepses’.
    • The difference in 1760 was one of tone rather than substance, with reluctant and grudging toleration being replaced by unavowed pride in the accessibility of the new regime to the old Tories.
    Synonyms
    unstated, unexpressed, unuttered, unsaid, unmentioned, unvoiced, unarticulated, undeclared, not spelt out, mute, silent, wordless, voiceless

Rhymes

aloud, becloud, cloud, crowd, enshroud, loud, Macleod, proud, shroud, Stroud, unbowed, unendowed, unploughed (US unplowed)
 
 
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