Adjective : an avowed enemy.    From Dictionary.com. 

Had there been unavowed connivance of the police agents?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Miserables] Reference

Katia and Peter learn they're two of his many unavowed children.    From Wordnik.com.  [In search of IN SEARCH OF] Reference

Shelley circle to the often unavowed obsessions of professional Romanticists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction: 'The Power is There': Romanticism as Aesthetic Insistence] Reference

Such relationships often had severe unavowed limitations which surfaced when their radical implications became apparent.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Renegade Psychiatrist's Story]

Saturday evening when I went to visit her in the little sitting-room on the ground floor, which the unavowed proprietor had had regilt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Honorine] Reference

I was sorry I had for a moment repented of my hospitality, and I determined to make her amends for the unavowed churlishness of my reception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carmilla] Reference

Each day brought up trivial attacks, fancied grievances, little fears unavowed; but when she sought to meet the issue squarely, it eluded her.    From Wordnik.com.  [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference

Their secret, an unavowed need of true values, finds no language to express itself and here not only the mass media but also intellectuals bear a heavy responsibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Czeslaw Milosz - Nobel Lecture] Reference

A decorous, unavowed delight was slowly penetrating them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 5] Reference

Redclyffe, as has been intimated, had an unavowed -- unavowed to himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance] Reference

Such was her judgment upon the unavowed candidate to Cecilia's hand; and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenelm Chillingly — Complete] Reference

She had the answer to her inmost doubt -- to her last shameful unavowed hope.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reef] Reference

A great deal of unavowed and unconscious unbelief wears the mask of wise foresight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference

This unavowed change in the constitution settled the sphere of political action open to the crown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration] Reference

Some unavowed distrust of her restrained him -- a distrust not of her heart but of her intelligence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fruit of the Tree] Reference

He knows perfectly well that unavowed motives of personal enmity lie at the bottom of the whole business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII] Reference

The topics to which it wanders are unavowed and hence intellectually illicit; transactions with them are furtive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education] Reference

Our relation was consequently one of those unavowed affairs in which triviality is the only alternative to tragedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Run 1916] Reference

That is an unnecessary confession, but I could not be satisfied to insert the record here, with my vanity unavowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Promised Land] Reference

He could not help having a secret initiative, an unavowed jealousy, and at the same time he greedily enjoyed it all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jean-Christophe, Volume I] Reference

There is no fear in them of waste, of misapplication of funds, of private jobbery, of ulterior and unavowed objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water of Life and Other Sermons] Reference

His own acute experience made him alive to the form of injury which might affect the unavowed children and their mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Deronda] Reference

Mr. Thorndale's intentions, and not, as it was in poor Laura's case, an unavowed attachment, but an absolute engagement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heir of Redclyffe] Reference

The lovers did not long rest in that unavowed consciousness which left a shadow of doubt as to their reciprocal attachment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel] Reference

He knew that a debate which had long gone on within himself, to himself unavowed, had at length to find its plain-spoken issue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thyrza] Reference

Even in her anger against him, the knowledge of his forgiving disposition, of the sincerity of his love, was an unavowed support.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nether World] Reference

Queen was almost such as to give them a control over her -- the Concinis and their unavowed but obvious ally the Duke of Epernon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series] Reference

Watson's wife, but some unavowed feeling prompted her to undertake, with enthusiasm, the duties of a mother to the colonel's daughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memorials and Other Papers — Complete] Reference

The sects themselves have a half unavowed conviction that they cannot subsist forever as sects, if unsupported by the civil authority.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny] Reference

Leonetta, without her sister deriving any further satisfaction from the unavowed contest, than an aching weariness both of body and spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Old for Dolls A Novel] Reference

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate, and consequently to correct our neighbour, if not in his will, at least in his deed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic] Reference

Their character, for the most part, had been silch as to account for her refusal, without resorting to the supposition of a lurking or unavowed attachment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference

He had an unavowed distrust of Gilbert's letters, he did not fancy a tutor thus selected, and believed the boy to be physically incapable of the proposed amount of study.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Step-Mother] Reference

Joined to the obvious interests which arose from curiosity and anxious passion, there mingled in my feelings a strong, though unavowed and undefined, infusion of jealousy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Roy — Volume 01] Reference

Was there not an unavowed sense that it was safer that she should die, while innocent of all but wayward folly, than be left to perils which she was so little able to resist?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1] Reference