unacknowledged

adjective

un·ac·knowl·edged | \ ˌən-ik-ˈnä-lijd

, -ak-\

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

Examples of unacknowledged in a Sentence

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As the murders continue, her unacknowledged provocations escalate. — Julian Lucas, Harper's magazine, "New Books," 22 July 2019 There is a certain unacknowledged Welshness to The Holy Bible. — Longreads, "Manic Street Preachers’ Album The Holy Bible," 25 June 2019 Even more significant is her denial—the unacknowledged bedrock of Pornography—that women, like anyone else, can be perverse. — Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books, "Fighting for Her Life," 17 June 2019 Horror how-to At the most basic level, Los Espookys follows four friends who form a business in an undisclosed Latin-American country where occasional supernatural occurrences are an unacknowledged, normal part of daily life. — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, "HBO’s Los Espookys will make you want to be a horror technician, too," 14 June 2019 After the surgery, a previously unacknowledged addiction to pain killers led to depression. — Lindsey Bever, chicagotribune.com, "A 'My 600-lb Life' participant dies of heart attack while filming his fight to lose weight," 2 Mar. 2018 The unspoken love between Quinn and Caitlin is an unacknowledged secret throughout the household — weaponized by their Aunt Pat (Dearbhla Molloy in a fierce performance) and borne passively by Quinn’s wife, Mary (Genevieve O’Reilly). — Aja Romano, Vox, "The Olivier-winning play from Jez Butterworth juggles 21 actors, a baby, and a goose — with a dark strain of Irish nationalism.," 3 Nov. 2018 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

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