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Meanings of unsung in English

Not famous or acclaimed.

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Having value that is not acknowledged.

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Usage of unsung in English
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He will hope for another clever goal from his unsung hero today.
The Guardian
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But as we've seen, those unsung NASA types take their jobs seriously.
Wired
3
WIRED presents the unsung geniuses who are shaping the future of business.
Wired
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Props are often the unsung heroes of set-design on stage or screen.
Radio NZ
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An oft-unsung region has found its hero to deliver a wonderful treat.
News.com.au
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Sometimes we're the unsung heroes of the work we do, he says.
The Irish Times
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Chinese customers have been the unsung heroes of an otherwise ailing economy.
Reuters
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But Together Forever may ultimately prove to be their unsung Curragh heroine.
The Irish Times
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Either the film was genuine or Jalo was an unsung special-effects genius.
Strata
10
The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day.
Gitanjali
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Until he was 40, he was one of television's reliable, unsung performers.
The Irish Times
12
The fate of Helen has not, however, remained unsung by modern bards.
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 (of 3) / Consisting ...
13
This extraordinarily disciplined, elegant performance is an unsung masterwork of European literature.
The Irish Times
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Te Ao Māori is in mourning for one of its unsung heroes.
Radio NZ
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Derrick Leverton, undertaker, gunnery officer, and unsung hero of the Sicilian invasion.
Operation mincemeat: how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled th...
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I will utter something extraordinary, new, hitherto unsung by any other voice.
The Works of Horace
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Unsung across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common
United Kingdom
Less common