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is unread
noun
Bad advice or counsel.
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She was unreadable, said Adler; and indeed, Kael is unread now.
First the character y is unread (see unread-char), and then step 10 is entered.
First the character y is unread if appropriate (see read-preserving-whitespace), and then step 10 is entered.
After all, there is only one point at which all writers – published, unpublished or unpublishable – are equal: when their work is unread.
The result, or so we are always being told, is a couple of generations' worth of people -- a vast and somewhat underemployed army -- who have been trained to write competent but profoundly uninspired short fiction that is unread except by other writers of short fiction and by the people who hire them to instruct yet more people in this arcane little craft.
Dennis Wheatley, gone the way of Edgar Wallace and Peter Cheyney, is unread now, yet for 40 years he was as famous and popular as anyone, with 20 million sales, standing in today's terms between Jeffrey Archer, another self-made author who wrote his way out of financial trouble, and Dan Brown, whose cod esotericism is close to a steal.
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"No," he snapped back, "I'm unread Adair".
Ability to recall or expire messages you send if they are unread by the recipient.
Most political telegrams, as Sir Nicholas Henderson noted, are unread and languish in the archive.
General local consensus is that the author's words still lie buried there, destined to be unread for eternity.
But I realise that the public could think the authors I study are unread for a reason.
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