Verb (used with object) : to reciprocate favors. From Dictionary.com.
If true, this last was an unreciprocated friendship. From Wordnik.com. [1968 the Year that Rocked the World]
It was largely unreciprocated, and he has since moved on. From Wordnik.com. [What Is Love? (Baby, Don’t Hurt Me) | Her Bad Mother] Reference
In my experience, the "magic" tends to be one-sided, the feeling unreciprocated. From Wordnik.com. [Toxic Waste Dump of My Life] Reference
He slowly raised his arms, reached out, and gave KC a tight, unreciprocated hug. From Wordnik.com. [The Thieves of Darkness] Reference
She says that efforts by her mother to reach out to the family went unreciprocated. From Wordnik.com. [Geoffrey Dunn: F-Bomb Confidential: Meghan McCain, Sarah Palin and HBO's 'Game Change'] Reference
And thus we say that mutual love of two people is higher and greater than an unreciprocated love can be. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference
The tragedy of love is not (what it is thought to be) the unreciprocated love, but the meagerly returned love. From Wordnik.com. [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference
They found that nearly 80% of "user pairs" are unreciprocated — that is, A follows B, but B doesn't follow A. From Wordnik.com. [Now the News Finds You] Reference
Brown cannot do without the unreciprocated 69 seats that Scotland and Wales import into the English legislation. From Wordnik.com. [Its Only Words] Reference
My initiatives and overtures over the years to engage the Chinese leadership in a dialogue remain unreciprocated. From Wordnik.com. [Speech of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to the European Parliament, Strasbourg] Reference
Now that I am in college freshman, I see young women using their sexuality to have men do them unreciprocated favors. From Wordnik.com. [Ohio Principal Tries to Cover Up Gang Rape in School Auditorium] Reference
I deem these general remarks necessary to prove that my unreciprocated affection for Chu Chu was not purely individual or singular. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
We can all relate to a love that's unreciprocated. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Yet these gestures of good will remain unreciprocated. From Wordnik.com. [Jihad Watch] Reference
His passion for Lady Dominey was uninvited and unreciprocated. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Impersonation] Reference
More yearning, more unreciprocated love, more unrealised desire. From Wordnik.com. [Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk] Reference
And they can really form no conception of an unreciprocated malice. From Wordnik.com. [Billy Budd] Reference
At this point, she is supported solely by her unreciprocated love for Alto. From Wordnik.com. [AnimeBlogger.net Antenna] Reference
There is no question that an unreciprocated bow is a gesture of subservience. From Wordnik.com. [American Thinker] Reference
Israel of 2009 and the unreciprocated generosity towards it of recent months. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
It eventually becomes apparent that his feelings are not entirely unreciprocated. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
There's been tremendous value, too, in learning how to embrace the unreciprocated crush. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference
No doubt some of them have even gloomed through brief periods of unreciprocated passion. From Wordnik.com. [Black Oxen] Reference
Nor was this friendship unreciprocated, for his host took a wonderful fancy to John Niel. From Wordnik.com. [Jess] Reference
The mere unreciprocated physical residue of my passion remained -- an exasperation between us. From Wordnik.com. [Tono Bungay] Reference
"Yes," said John, nothing daunted, "though unlike his, mine is an unreciprocated flame, and unavowed.". From Wordnik.com. [My Friend Prospero] Reference
Conservative right wing, who, he said, "hate us with a passion - and I can't say it's unreciprocated". From Wordnik.com. [BBC News - Home] Reference
No major American media paid any attention to the startling, unreciprocated bow, gesture of subservience. From Wordnik.com. [American Thinker] Reference
And for this also all the more does he tremble as he thinks of the possibility of its being unreciprocated. From Wordnik.com. [The Lone Ranche] Reference
Though "wonderful" to work with, he found McCracken unstable because of her unreciprocated affection for Robbins. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Some time ago I was at the receiving end of the unsolicited and unreciprocated attentions of someone I barely knew. From Wordnik.com. [Desicritics] Reference
And receiving an honor is not the same as an immediate unreciprocated bow upon meeting a monarch for the first time. From Wordnik.com. [American Thinker] Reference
It's one of those unreciprocated grudge matches where it's a big deal to one side but the other barely knows or cares. From Wordnik.com. [Blognor Regis] Reference
The frequency of Cornelia's visits to the palace on following days seemed to prove that the admiration was not unreciprocated. From Wordnik.com. [A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.] Reference
The one fact which did not fit in here was this -- in the story as told by Benis the affair had been one of unreciprocated affection. From Wordnik.com. [The Window-Gazer] Reference
I deem these general remarks necessary to prove that my unreciprocated affection for "Chu Chu" was not purely individual or singular. From Wordnik.com. [The Bell-Ringer of Angel's] Reference
But when the same thing happened to a friend, I knew I had to tell her the truth: that like mine, her misplaced love was unreciprocated. From Wordnik.com. [The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines] Reference
“serving-gentlemen” to waste on her charge any unreciprocated adoration. From Wordnik.com. [A Victor of Salamis] Reference
I'm in love, and it is sooo unreciprocated (adj: not returned in kind; "unrequited (unanswered) love" that it's embarrassing. From Wordnik.com. [withkerth Diary Entry] Reference
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