unacknowledged

adjective un·ac·knowl·edged \ ˌən-ik-ˈnä-lijd , -ak- \

|Updated on: 19 Aug 2018

Definition of unacknowledged

: not generally recognized, accepted, or admitted : not acknowledged

His involvement in the cover-up has remained unacknowledged.

Her efforts should not go unacknowledged.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Recent Examples of unacknowledged from the Web

Their lives were upended, their futures clouded and their pain unacknowledged as a districtwide problem was kept under wraps.

— david jackson, chicagotribune.com, "Special report: Chicago Public Schools fails to protect students from rape and sexual abuse," 1 June 2018
Over the years, Evergreen, East End and many other black cemeteries across Virginia have fallen into disrepair, uncared for and unacknowledged.

— Washington Post, "Virginians work to breathe life into black cemeteries," 7 May 2018
Her selfless brilliance had somehow gone wholly unacknowledged.

— sam walker, WSJ, "Now on Broadway: SpongeBob ChauvinistPants," 11 July 2018
For decades the graves went unacknowledged: no markers, no plaques, no memorials.

— matías costa, Smithsonian, "The Battle Over the Memory of the Spanish Civil War," 28 June 2018
Anything more intimate than that was either unacknowledged or grist for cartoons and stand-up comedians — funny at best, but more likely kind of disgusting.

— alice radosh, The Cut, "Grieving for My Sex Life After My Husband Died," 23 Feb. 2018
Incredibles 2 pines for the hope, the sense of adventure, and, ironically, the innovation that characterized the 60s, while its negative aspects go unacknowledged.

— andrea thompson, Chicago Reader, "Incredibles 2 : Who’s afraid of the superpowered woman?," 29 June 2018
These are essential — but often unacknowledged — skills for students to hone.

— valerie strauss, Washington Post, "Betsy DeVos goes to Switzerland and bashes U.S. public schools," 7 June 2018
The government is building hundreds or thousands of unacknowledged re-education camps to which Uighurs can be sent for any reason or for none.

— The Economist, "China has turned Xinjiang into a police state like no other," 31 May 2018

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