never

• In those days (as now) people bought on time, popularly known as the never-never , as most people didn't pay off their accounts for years. —  The Word Detective
• Never before had his master seen him off his guard--never, that is to say, without the knowledge that he was being looked at--and if his Grace had expected that he should find any grosser man than he knew revealed, he was mistaken. —  Doom Castle
• Why? Because Macedonia never was the centre of a Greek Empire, as it never was the centre of a Bulgarian Empire. —  Serbia in Light and Darkness With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916)
• Nothing else must matter now IV BARRIE WRITES AGAIN This never was a story. —  The Heather-Moon
• But this never was a common dish, and not until the turkey appeared was the goose rescued from her annual martyrdom The date of the coming of the turkey to Provence is uncertain. —  The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms