Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not honored or praised; uncelebrated.
- adjective Not sung.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not sung; not recited musically, as a song: as, “half yet remains unsung,” Not celebrated in verse or song.
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- adjective Which has not been
lauded orappreciated . - adjective Not
sung .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not famous or acclaimed
- adjective having value that is not acknowledged
Etymologies
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Examples
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With one of what I call the unsung heroes of the Unix command line, the "fold" command.
Ask Dave Taylor! 2008
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Berman, a friend of David Plouffe, has been referred to as the "unsung hero" of Barack Obama's 2008 primary victory over Hillary Clinton.
Brendan DeMelle: Hillary Clinton's Keystone XL Crony Lobbyists Problem Brendan DeMelle 2011
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The caregiver is often referred to as the unsung hero.
Lee Woodruff: Caring for the Caregiver this Memorial Day 2009
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The party's showing was being dubbed the "unsung success story" and "remarkable" given the cuts being pushed through by the Coalition Government.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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KING: Up next, the man Barack Obama calls the unsung hero of his presidential campaign.
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Spinster and bluestocking, Niblock is also something of an outsider, an emancipated transgressor in polite Edwardian society, recalling the unsung role of the female intellectual, adventurer and agent in the birth of the modernist period; a mischievous subversion of the Victorian upper class male.
Archive 2008-12-01 Bluestocking 2008
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And for these efforts, theydeserve to becalled unsung heroes of the Philippines.
Overseas Filipino Workers: The Unsung Heroes of the Philippines 2008
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Spinster and bluestocking, Niblock is also something of an outsider, an emancipated transgressor in polite Edwardian society, recalling the unsung role of the female intellectual, adventurer and agent in the birth of the modernist period; a mischievous subversion of the Victorian upper class male.
'Life of a Bluestocking' now showing at Apartment Bluestocking 2008
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Consider that in September, an ABC News/Kaiser Family Foundation/USA Today survey found that 56 percent of Americans preferred a government-run universal health system "like Medicare" to our current system-a development that Marcia Angell called the unsung development of 2006 in an op-ed for The Boston Globe.
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So often described as an 'unsung hero', Hill's return from injury during the 2003 World Cup helped spur England on to victory.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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