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Unofficial   /ˌənəfˈɪʃəl/   Listen
Unofficial

adjective
1.
Not having official authority or sanction.  "An unofficial estimate" , "He participated in an unofficial capacity"
2.
Not officially established.






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"Unofficial" Quotes from Famous Books



... embrace the naked flesh. 'Temperamentvoll' German Jews Drink beer around; and 'there' the dews Are soft beneath a morn of gold. Here tulips bloom as they are told; Unkempt about those hedges blows An English unofficial rose; And there the unregulated sun Slopes down to rest when day is done, And wakes a vague unpunctual star, A slippered Hesper; and there are Meads towards Haslingfield and Coton Where 'das Betreten's' ...
— Georgian Poetry 1911-12 • Various

... a crumpled newspaper from his pocket and handed it to Thyra. He was the unofficial mail-carrier of Avonlea. Most of the people gave him a trifle for bringing their letters and papers from the office. He earned small sums in various other ways, and so contrived to keep the life ...
— Further Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... be careful," he said. "We must place clearly before ourselves the risks that we are running before we come to any decision. For you the risk is simply that of unofficial banishment. They can hardly send you to Siberia because you are half an Englishman; and that impertinent country has a habit of getting up and shouting when her sons are interfered with. But they can easily make Russia ...
— The Sowers • Henry Seton Merriman

... mutiny. We don't want to turn anything over to the Mekinese—after all, no matter what the king has commanded, once the fleet had lifted off, there can be no punishment if we destroy our planes and blast our equipment! Will you give us an unofficial—" ...
— Talents, Incorporated • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... I may be allowed to assure your lordship, without any reference to my motives for keeping it, that I shall be very slow to give up a living in your lordship's diocese. As your letter to me is unofficial,—and I thank you heartily for sending it in such form,—I have ventured to reply ...
— The Vicar of Bullhampton • Anthony Trollope


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