half-acknowledged

That failure is half-acknowledged in the setting up of a sweeping policy review.

100 days in, Mr Miliband, you need a plan | Observer editorial 2011

More than 30 years later, being the half-acknowledged son of a Roman Catholic priest has cast an enduring shadow over his life.

Should the Catholic church scrap its celibacy rule? 2010

The half-acknowledged thought flashed away and anger took its place.

Dearly Beloved 2010

This scandal was half-acknowledged last week by our Secretary of State for Defence, Des Browne, when he admitted to the Commons Defence Committee that there was a "capability gap" in the way our troops are equipped.

"Limousines" but no armoured cars Richard 2006

Guillory shifts attention to the theory itself, arguing that "the equation of literature with rhetoric" constitutes an ideology that has as its rationale an institutional defense of literature: "Literary theory as a version of rhetoricism defends literature from its half-perceived and half-acknowledged social marginality" (180).

Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005

Now, as I look back over my shoulder at the path that I have taken, I can see that it has become tangled and obscured by undergrowth, where the seeds of past actions and half-acknowledged sins have taken root.

The Black Angel John Connolly 2005

There was a quiet earnestness about Mr. Arabin, as he half-acknowledged and half-defended himself from the charge brought against him, which surprised Eleanor.

Barchester Towers 2004

This quiet assimilation of Williams's material into Medwin's oriental poetry is later half-acknowledged, when the "Sketches in Hindoostan" are reworked into Medwin's "biographical" travel memoir, The Angler in Wales (1834).

Introduction 2002

Jeanne DuVal makes her home in Paris of the 1840s, where she is the half-acknowledged mistress of the poet Charles Baudelaire.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

Besides, he was too glad to be back — result of long, half-acknowledged homesickness.

Swan Song 2004