"unmean" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From un- (“not”) + mean.",
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      "form": "more unmean",
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    },
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      "form": "most unmean",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1999, Martin Scorsese, Peter Brunette, Martin Scorsese: Interviews, page 188",
          "text": "The Age of Innocence is based on an Edith Wharton novel and set in the very unmean streets of upper-crust New York, circa 1870.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Sherri Rifkin, LoveHampton, Macmillan, page 247",
          "text": "But this whole time, all you've been doing is judging me, making not unmean comments about my new friends, about the guys I'm dating, about how much I drink, go out—everything—as if you don't approve.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Martin Bowman, Battlefield Bombers: Deep Sea Attack, page 8",
          "text": "They are so unmean, so just and so kind.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, John Lennard, Of Sex and Faerie: Further Essays on Genre Fiction, page 65",
          "text": "So the tightrope these unmean men must walk drew taut.",
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        "Not mean (all senses)."
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          "mean",
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        "(rare) Not mean (all senses)."
      ],
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        {
          "sense": "various",
          "word": "kind"
        },
        {
          "sense": "various",
          "word": "agreeable"
        },
        {
          "sense": "various",
          "word": "generous"
        }
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  "word": "unmean"
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    {
      "form": "unmeans",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "unmeaning",
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        "participle",
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    },
    {
      "form": "unmeant",
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        "participle",
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "2007, Ralph Yarrow, Franc Chamberlain, Sacred Theatre, page 114",
          "text": "The play works to unmean meaning by a double dislocation. It uses expectation to undermine expectation both of everyday 'reality' and of theatrical genre.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Maria Damon, Postliterary America: From Bagel Shop Jazz to Micropoetries, page 83",
          "text": "... just as Steinian non-sense derives its power to “unmean” from the rigidly semantic context of most discursive forms",
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          "ref": "2015, CD Reiss, Shuttergirl",
          "text": "I'd meant everything I ever said to her, and I didn't know how to unmean it.",
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        "To reverse, cancel, or negate what was intentionally communicated."
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        "(rare) To reverse, cancel, or negate what was intentionally communicated."
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        {
          "word": "unring"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "take back"
        },
        {
          "word": "walk back"
        },
        {
          "word": "withcall"
        }
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          "text": "The Age of Innocence is based on an Edith Wharton novel and set in the very unmean streets of upper-crust New York, circa 1870.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Sherri Rifkin, LoveHampton, Macmillan, page 247",
          "text": "But this whole time, all you've been doing is judging me, making not unmean comments about my new friends, about the guys I'm dating, about how much I drink, go out—everything—as if you don't approve.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Martin Bowman, Battlefield Bombers: Deep Sea Attack, page 8",
          "text": "They are so unmean, so just and so kind.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2010, John Lennard, Of Sex and Faerie: Further Essays on Genre Fiction, page 65",
          "text": "So the tightrope these unmean men must walk drew taut.",
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        "Not mean (all senses)."
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        "(rare) Not mean (all senses)."
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    {
      "sense": "various",
      "word": "kind"
    },
    {
      "sense": "various",
      "word": "agreeable"
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    {
      "sense": "various",
      "word": "generous"
    }
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          "text": "The play works to unmean meaning by a double dislocation. It uses expectation to undermine expectation both of everyday 'reality' and of theatrical genre.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Maria Damon, Postliterary America: From Bagel Shop Jazz to Micropoetries, page 83",
          "text": "... just as Steinian non-sense derives its power to “unmean” from the rigidly semantic context of most discursive forms",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2015, CD Reiss, Shuttergirl",
          "text": "I'd meant everything I ever said to her, and I didn't know how to unmean it.",
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        "(rare) To reverse, cancel, or negate what was intentionally communicated."
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      "word": "take back"
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    {
      "word": "walk back"
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      "word": "withcall"
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  "word": "unmean"
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