unofficial
IPA: ʌnʌfˈɪʃʌɫ
adjective
- Not officially established.
- Implicitly true but withheld and/or contradicted by authority.
- Not acting with official authority.
- (pharmacology) Not listed in a national pharmacopeia etc.
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Examples of "unofficial" in Sentences
- The unofficial sorority jewel is the pearl.
- He is the unofficial treasurer of the group.
- Dan is the unofficial treasurer of the group.
- Ghaur became the unofficial leader of the Deviants.
- It is the unofficial national leaf of the Philippines.
- Must emphasise that the word "unofficial" in that quote.
- Unofficial copies of the screenplay circulate on the Internet.
- I'm the author of the unofficial fan site of the Gwinnett Gladiators.
- The character of Bludgeon is unofficially considered part of the line.
- Although obscene, the unofficial nickname of the division is what it is.
- Hal is the eighth guardian of the orphans, and the first unofficial guardian.
- Our reader offers the following (in unofficial translation) taken from Katholiek Nieuwsblad (Catholic Weekly) in the Netherlands:
- In the past, you have been involved in conducting what you call unofficial conversations with Taiwan's NSC director, Mr. Ding Mou-shih.
- They authorized the use of torture, and some people were tortured to death in unofficial CIA prisons; no one got charged for those crimes.
- Concerns of brandjacking and Twitter-squatting aside – and increasingly these concepts seem hugely over-simplified if not redundant – unofficial is often good if not better.
- The South African Police Union on Thursday criticised what it called the unofficial freezing of promotions within the force because of the integration former homeland officers.
- No greater praise can be given than by those who use the Raven and this can be evidenced at the always excellent military website StrategyPage which reports that the Raven is winning what it terms the unofficial "Commando Olympics."
- The foreign ministers, he says, have agreed to what he called an unofficial ceasefire, to allow in unarmed Indonesian military and civilian observers to enforce the ceasefire, and to hold further bilateral talks with Indonesian participation in the near future.
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