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unavowed

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Adj.1.unavowedunavowed - not openly expressed; "a sneaking suspicion"
sneaking
concealed - hidden on any grounds for any motive; "a concealed weapon"; "a concealed compartment in his briefcase"
2.unavowedunavowed - not affirmed or mentioned or declared
undeclared - not announced or openly acknowledged; "fighting an undeclared war"
3.unavowedunavowed - not openly made known; "a secret marriage"; "a secret bride"
secret
unacknowledged - not recognized or admitted


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There was a roomful of old books at Bly--last-century fiction, some of it, which, to the extent of a distinctly deprecated renown, but never to so much as that of a stray specimen, had reached the sequestered home and appealed to the unavowed curiosity of my youth.
Turn Of The Screw by James, Henry View in context
Cumnor had a theory that she had been a governess in some family in which the poet visited and that, in consequence of her position, there was from the first something unavowed, or rather something positively clandestine, in their relations.
The Aspern Papers by James, Henry View in context
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