1. unacknowledged - Adjective
2. unacknowledged - Adjective Satellite
not recognized or admitted
not openly acknowledged
Source: WordNetThe type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. Freda Adler
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries. Iain Banks
The crucified human body is our best picture of the unacknowledged human soul. Stanley Cavell
Arms control is so often identified with limitations on the possession or deployment of weapons that it is often overlooked that this reciprocated investment in non-nuclear capability was a remarkable instance of unacknowledged but reciprocated arms control. Thomas Schelling
The moral authority of governors rests, in reality, on the self-interest of the governed. The latter having a natural tendency to resist anything harmful to their self-interest, unacknowledged authority would continually require the help of physical force. Gustave de Molinari