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Definition of unsolicited:

  • (adjective) not asked for; "unsolicited junk mail"

Sentence Examples:

Thanks for the unsolicited testimonial.

Take the unsolicited advice of a sufferer.

An unsolicited testimonial to one of the officers was given.

Genius, however exalted, acknowledges unsolicited testimonials from any source.

"Thank you very much for this unsolicited testimonial," she said gravely.

The same year Blanch Howell willfully, unsolicited and unasked, committed perjury.

The chiefs, of their own unsolicited kindness, removed the grievous burdens.

This striking and unsolicited testimonial made no appeal to the Efficient Baxter.

Several hundred unsolicited testimonials have been received from Medical men and others.

It is useless sending manuscripts, for he refuses to consider unsolicited poetical contributions.

Our unsolicited commendation of these marvelous pictures insured us a more than polite reception.

Indeed, his disciples often darkened the issue by their unsolicited, uncritical championship.

I have had presents, unsolicited and unrequited, from almost every class of Chinese.

"There, mother; that's an unsolicited testimonial to your particular brand of goodness," said Will.

Love leaps in unsolicited at any unguarded aperture, and becomes master of the household.

This unsolicited testimonial to the good work of our missionaries and teachers is entirely deserved.

The first reply to the King's appeal, unsolicited and unappreciated, came from La Fayette.

The unsolicited notoriety her exploit had brought upon her had been its chief penalty.

Stoddard gave me his autograph unsolicited, written with his left hand and then backwards.

Unsolicited, so competent an authority as Julius Caesar once gave the Belgians a testimonial for their courage.

Yet, unsolicited as he was by me, how could I think his generous offers insincere?

Her unsolicited intrusion into the conversation was plainly a shock to Percy's sense of decorum.

He had been greatly relieved, however, to get away from the trapper's company and unsolicited assistance.

It was an unsolicited privilege, but one granted through the benevolent insistence of the superintending surgeon.

"This is the eighteenth time I have made the round trip," suddenly declared the clothing manufacturer, unsolicited.

The tidings of this unsolicited attendant were confirmed the next day, by the unsuspecting John Cross.

The letter was written in the kindest terms, and gratified me the more because it was quite unsolicited.

I detached the card, and I believe I have it to this day as my choicest (because quite unsolicited) testimonial.

This act of unsolicited patriotism proved of incalculable benefit then and afterward to the President and the Union.

How often have I received unsolicited clothes and boots from houses at which I had simply asked for meals!

They are unmerited and unsolicited, and I shall ever be proud to have received them from the best of sovereigns.

It has been an unsolicited offering, given in the smallest sums, often from the extreme poverty of the giver.

Her testimonial was not, perhaps, unsolicited; still, I never dreamed of one that tickled my secret vanity so happily.

Both proprietor and waiter appeared to set the table; it was for one, but wineglasses for two were brought unsolicited.

He had never paid a fee for a testimonial throughout his career; every one that he printed was genuine and unsolicited.

It was a chance which many young men of wealth and social position coveted, and it had come to him unsolicited.

At the end of his second month on the paper he was gratified at the receipt of an unsolicited increase in his salary.

The weird conceptions and grotesque ideas in back of most of the unsolicited material submitted would make one easily believe that the artists are inmates, or perfectly qualified to be inmates of asylums.

He was already in possession of many unsolicited orders for it, and although knowing nothing of the subscription-book business, determined that, when printed, his book should be brought out by subscription.

General Meade, upon whom this unsolicited and unexpected honor and responsibility was conferred, had been identified with the army from its organization, and had proved himself an able and competent officer.

Any house which is large enough to employ a literary adviser will probably receive, in the course of a year, at least one thousand unsolicited manuscripts, which will come from every part of the country.

On the contrary, the subscription list, to the astonishment of the publishers, was increased daily by unsolicited names, sent in from all sections of the country, and from various grades of life and occupation.

I confess I should never select one of those creatures as a subject of study; but in a single case, where the creature presented itself unsolicited, and became familiar without encouragement, it soon lost its repulsive character.

It certainly was, for, considering my low beginning, they were great things to me, and they were still more pleasing as being so many spontaneous testimonies of the public good opinion, and by me entirely unsolicited.

In one night she had established herself as a trump card in the manager's hand against the rival house, an accession which he so appreciated that, unsolicited, he raised her salary from five hundred to two thousand pounds.

Encouraged to continue in his own peaceful agricultural ways, he is reasonable and contented in doing his work; but if he is roused by what he considers unjust aggression, or any unsolicited interference, he is a dangerous man to deal with.

That good man had indeed mentioned him to the powers that be, but the mention had been entirely to his advantage, with the result that John got ten dollars a week added to his salary, quite unsolicited.

In the cause of a thorough neutrality, it should be distinctly understood that this undertaking is based upon cordial proposals which came to us unsolicited, and that we stand ready to do likewise in all other directions under similar conditions.

Proud as I should be at being selected as the advocate of my country's rights by the unsolicited voice of her legislature, I could not purchase even this gratification at the expense of any whom I love, esteem, or admire.

They were real "home folks" and often occupied our spare room, and when they were with us Richard and I were allowed to come to all the meals, and, even if unsolicited, freely express our views on the modern drama.

For his act of unsolicited grace, by which I was able once more to be with my dear wife and children, I cherish him in grateful remembrance, as you may well believe, and each day with deeper and more tender affection.

Many were the services which he thus rendered unsolicited; and frequently the officer, in whose behalf he had interested himself with the Admiralty, did not know to whose friendly interference he was indebted for his good fortune.

The giant, dwarf, and stout lady remained unsolicited in the retirement from which they had not yet emerged; and even the strains of the band died away into empty air without eliciting a single protest of disapproval or regret.

Here they would have rested, but for the unsolicited offer of the publishers to reproduce them in a book at their own cost and risk, and on terms ensuring a fair share of any proceeds of their sale to the writer.

While we were giving our friend of the lonely shoe some unsolicited advice, a sergeant came in and told a thrilling tale of an alarm that had been distributed along the road by a wild-eyed "runner" holding his nose and yelling, "Gas!"

The Earl of Bolton had, unsolicited, given him the desired living of his own parish; and Francis was at the moment pressing the blushing Clara to fix the day that was to put a period to his long probation.

The wiser and the kinder the parent, the less will the child ask for; rather, it learns from experience to trust the older wisdom, and to be contented with the love which is ever giving, unsolicited, all good things.

I had consented, on the unanimous and unsolicited request of the Liberal party in Salisbury, to stand there, and all went well till just before the election, when the Trades Protective people permitted the party organization to throw me over.

As soon as his returning strength would allow, he hastened back east, and unsolicited by us delivered in his native city and in Washington some of the most truthful, vivid life scenes of the suffering of our people that have ever been published.

In this instance we were indebted solely to the good nature and kindness of these children of the wilds for the means of watering our horses: unsolicited they had offered us their aid, without which we never could have accomplished our purpose.

Colonel Morgan proudly repeated this to his men, and each man of the regiment treasured it in his memory to the end of his life, as being the highest compliment troops could receive, for it came, unsolicited, from a gallant enemy.

He marched through the house to the wash bench, and, unsolicited, washed his hands and face and soaped his hair, after which he slicked it down carefully, so that there might be no mistake about his having brushed and combed it.

He had seen her once driving a smart little governess cart through the quaint and steep streets of the Cornish town, and he had found out her identity from the unsolicited testimony of the aged waiter who had noticed him looking at her.