What is "unofficial"

Usage examples of "unofficial".

This unofficial arrangement between Cardona and Goldy Tancred was a logical procedure.

The unofficial census estimated that there were another 50,000 Loonies living off in the hills.

But because it was an obscure and unofficial kind of operation, she was someone the Magisterium could deny if they needed to, as well.

She was the unofficial spokeswoman and captain of the New Bedford girls, twenty years old, her face less pretty than strongly beautiful, with its close, secretive mouth.

Oliver Tambo, the president of the ANC, was on an unofficial visit to East Germany and could not return to London in time for the meeting.

This was where the authentic old Italian heart of the city beat most strongly, and Danny Tosca was in some sense its unofficial pacemaker.

Talleyrand, lately an exile in America, but now Secretary of Foreign Affairs to the French Government, entered into intrigue with them, through several unaccredited and unofficial agents, of which the object was to induce them to promise a round bribe to the directors and a large sum of money to fill the exhausted French treasury, by way of purchasing forbearance.

His idea was that every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.

Unofficial opinions by local medicians who have viewed the bodies hint that such physical abnormalities are probably present in all three.

Of course he knew Marr and Senn as the Imperial caterers and unofficial social arbiters at Court.

When the outer doors were closed, one unofficial person remained--Comte Detricand de Tournay, of the House of Vaufontaine.

Monday after Labor Day, the unofficial start of townie summer, and most of the insufferable New Yorkers are gone.

Even if he had not been our unofficial ambassador from the Witted folk of the realm, I think he would have become a court favorite.

Israel that as Ameen of Tangier he had doubled the custom revenues in half a year, invited him to fill an informal, unofficial, and irregular position as assessor of tributes.

It adopts the standard Aristophanic pattern in which an unofficial hero, a marginal member of society, undertakes an illegitimate and metaphoric plot by virtue of which he will not only triumph personally but perversely correct the central social problem that regular, non-comedic society has been unable to solve.