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  • adjective Without having been beckoned.

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un- +‎ beckoned

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Examples

  • Liz saw each one as a dead person, and the tears that came unbeckoned were for every one of them.

    Unnatural Selection Tim Lebbon 2006

  • Liz saw each one as a dead person, and the tears that came unbeckoned were for every one of them.

    Unnatural Selection Tim Lebbon 2006

  • Liz saw each one as a dead person, and the tears that came unbeckoned were for every one of them.

    Unnatural Selection Tim Lebbon 2006

  • Writers have not made a habit of rushing unbeckoned to Hollywood.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • Writers have not made a habit of rushing unbeckoned to Hollywood.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • Writers have not made a habit of rushing unbeckoned to Hollywood.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • But outraged nature had prevailed, and sleep had come unbeckoned, unbidden.

    The Yellow Claw Sax Rohmer 1921

  • And as I passed through the last overhanging arch where a one-armed guard wearing a G.A.R. badge turned a needlessly big key, there came unbeckoned across my inward sight a vision of a check-aproned girl in tears, sobbing with head on desk.

    Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

  • And as I passed through the last overhanging arch where a one-armed guard wearing a G.A.R. badge turned a needlessly big key, there came unbeckoned across my inward sight a vision of a check-aproned girl in tears, sobbing with head on desk.

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen Elbert Hubbard 1885

  • I rationalized the assistance, convinced myself that it was deserved, and propped myself pitifully and unbeckoned on the backs of others, expecting them to carry me and my family.

    beatcanvas.com 2008

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