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Definition of unperson in English: unpersonnounPlural unpersons ˈʌnpəːs(ə)nənˈpərsn A person whose name or existence is denied or ignored, especially because of a political misdemeanour. 没落人物（尤指因政治上的不端行为而姓名或存在被排斥或遭冷落者） Example sentencesExamples - To all effects and purposes, he had disappeared, become an unperson to which anyone could do anything - and so they did.
- All Morris has done is to give these unpersons an opportunity to demonstrate the fact that they'll do anything to get a chauffeured car, a Styrofoam beaker of tea and five minutes in the green room goofing out with others of their ilk.
- On the other hand, the handling of Kerry's personal life was pretty awkward - we went from the birth of his daughters to his marriage to Theresa Heinz, without a mention of Kerry's first wife. She, apparently, has become an unperson.
- But I really think this whole distinction is irrelevant to the cloning debate, and it's used to convince us to remove our protection from those humans we deem unpersons.
- Indeed, previous ‘unpersons’ or ‘unplayers’ (in the Orwellian sense) now move to center stage.
- Inconvenient people become ‘unpersons’ in Orwell's world; inconvenient history becomes ‘unideas’ in ours.
- Yet within an amazingly brief period the new partner was introduced on to the scene and to certain people I automatically became yesterday's news, an Orwellian unperson.
Synonyms outcast, social outcast, pariah, untouchable, undesirable, exile, reject, non-person, persona non grata
Origin1949: coined by George Orwell in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Definition of unperson in US English: unpersonnounənˈpərsnənˈpərsn A person whose name or existence is denied or ignored, especially because of a political misdemeanor. 没落人物（尤指因政治上的不端行为而姓名或存在被排斥或遭冷落者） Example sentencesExamples - To all effects and purposes, he had disappeared, become an unperson to which anyone could do anything - and so they did.
- All Morris has done is to give these unpersons an opportunity to demonstrate the fact that they'll do anything to get a chauffeured car, a Styrofoam beaker of tea and five minutes in the green room goofing out with others of their ilk.
- Indeed, previous ‘unpersons’ or ‘unplayers’ (in the Orwellian sense) now move to center stage.
- But I really think this whole distinction is irrelevant to the cloning debate, and it's used to convince us to remove our protection from those humans we deem unpersons.
- On the other hand, the handling of Kerry's personal life was pretty awkward - we went from the birth of his daughters to his marriage to Theresa Heinz, without a mention of Kerry's first wife. She, apparently, has become an unperson.
- Inconvenient people become ‘unpersons’ in Orwell's world; inconvenient history becomes ‘unideas’ in ours.
- Yet within an amazingly brief period the new partner was introduced on to the scene and to certain people I automatically became yesterday's news, an Orwellian unperson.
Synonyms outcast, social outcast, pariah, untouchable, undesirable, exile, reject, non-person, persona non grata
Origin1949: coined by George Orwell in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. |