unavowed
- s not openly expressed
- s not affirmed or mentioned or declared
- s not openly made known
- Chirac's candidate, incumbent Assembly President Edgar Faure, 69, was pitted against Giscard's unavowed but clear choice, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 63.
- Central proposition of their manifesto is an inverted declaration of war: "Today our people are the objects of undeclared, but not unavowed, wars.
- In his plays, the previously unmentionable was said; the formerly unavowed, acknowledged.