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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"  Antonym: official.
2.
Not officially established.





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"Unofficial" Quotes from Famous Books



... means. I'm just making a sort of unofficial report, you understand. I wanted you to know that while some people suspect you and some suspect Leland we are going ahead and getting the cards into our own hands. And I wanted to ask you what you thought of that mining proposition on the ...
— The Short Cut • Jackson Gregory
... parish church. Such works were Erasmus' Paraphrases, Bullinger's Decades, Bishop Jewel's works, and other writings of an apologetic nature. To a certain extent news was also spread, and grievances were aired, in unofficial broadsides or ballads. These treated of such subjects as the untimely end of traitors great or small; the adventures of her Majesty's soldiers and sailors; the rapacity of landlords and the evils of ...
— The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects • Sedley Lynch Ware
... belt's yours"—or words to that effect. It was unofficial, that verdict, but it was unanimous and voiced ...
— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower
... the death of Charles is usually called after Oliver Cromwell. At first the unofficial Dictator of England, he was officially made Lord Protector in the year 1653. He ruled five years. He used this period to continue the policies of Elizabeth. Spain once more became the arch enemy of England and war upon the Spaniard was made ...
— The Story of Mankind • Hendrik van Loon
... paragraph appeared which seemed intended to convey an insinuation that the Princess Anne did not sincerely rejoice at the fall of Namur. But the printer made haste to atone for his fault by the most submissive apologies. During a considerable time the unofficial gazettes, though much more garrulous and amusing than the official gazette, were scarcely less courtly. Whoever examines them will find that the King is always mentioned with profound respect. About ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 4 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay


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