Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not looked for or requested: received some unsought advice.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not sought. Not searched for; not sought after.
- Unasked for; unsolicited.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not sought.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not desired
Etymologies
- un- + sought (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The other intended path was to record things that are rarer, such as unsought gifts:”
Shambhala SunSpace - John Tarrant’s “Escape Arts in Delusionville”: My Average Life
“I'm working on a story about an artsy neighborhood that is struggling to coming to terms with an unsought piece of public art that its unhappy public has variously nicknamed the eyeball, the dinosaur egg, the hemorrhoid and the GBV for Great Big ... um, body part.”
“He may have suggested that drinking carrot juice and taking coffee bean enemas may help combat cancer, but that does not mean he will carry on delivering his uninformed and unsought opinions when his mother dies.”
The Guardian: Prepare for the reign of Charles the Meddler | Nick Cohen
“It came unsought, unbidden, at the meadow stile, it was one of the flowers of happiness scattered for us and found unexpectedly by the wayside of life.”
“Perhaps new life comes not from closure but from our arrival at a fragile, tentative moment in which the unsought for and undesired wound becomes for us a resource for deeper relationships?”
The Huffington Post: John Thatamanil: Killing And The Myth Of Closure
“But that can't be the only reason for my unsought status as a forgotten Jew.”
The Huffington Post: David Harris: Letter from a Forgotten Jew*
“As we find ourselves trying to sort out cause and effect, we should recall President Eisenhower's farewell address warning that, in the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.”
The Huffington Post: Howard Steven Friedman: World's Largest Weapons Exporters
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex.”
“Poor Ida, cheated of the unsought moral high ground.”
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.”
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