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  • adjective Not acclaimed.

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un- +‎ acclaimed

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Examples

  • John, who previously collaborated with Kiki Dee and more latterly the boyband Blue in successful, if critically unacclaimed, hunts for chart success, has recently said he feels he must revisit what he considers his musical roots of American soul, country and gospel to take his career forwards.

    Elton John says goodbye to pop, and hello to real music Robert Booth 2010

  • For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Zenmomma 2008

  • The arc ended mid-story and Jungle Action folded, with Jack Kirby — newly returned to Marvel after having decamped to rival DC Comics for a time — immediately writing and drawing the shorter-lived and critically unacclaimed Black Panther series, starting January 1977.

    Archive 2009-05-10 Zen Tiger 2009

  • I don't want, however, for us to forget those that are working unnoticed, unacclaimed, and go about quietly giving not only of their time and money, but in some cases, their lives.

    Big Stars, Big Giving: All next week on American Morning 2009

  • As it was, his name was mentioned with respect, but he passed through the streets unacclaimed.

    Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

  • The fact is that great men, in literature at all events, must be content, at the present time, to be unrecognised and unacclaimed.

    At Large Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

  • The eyes of faith behold a wonderful scene: that of a countless  number of lay people, both women, and men, busy at work in their daily life and activity, oftentimes far from view and quite unacclaimed by the world, unknown to the world's great personages but nonetheless looked upon in love by the Father, untiring labourers who work in the Lord's vineyard.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Instead of drawing a cool, set pose after one person shoots another, Otomo prefers showing the uncertainty and shamefulness of the act, and it is this sort of realism that caused Otomo to go unnoticed and unacclaimed for so long.

    Anime Nano! 2009

  • A marriage to Julia Roberts, his co-star in the unacclaimed Flatliners, was called off at the last minute in 1991 when she eloped to Europe with his best friend.

    Life and style | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • By the time of 'WipEout Fusion' - the PlayStation 2's much-anticipated though sadly unacclaimed sequel to the series - we were able to create a website that really seemed to have been beamed from this future world.

    the-inbetween.com 2008

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