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- adjective Not
known widely enough; ofinadequate fame .
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Examples
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His debut film was Zero Effect, a modern day blend of Sherlock Holmes and, after a fashion, Batman that starred Bill Pullman and Ben Stiller in the Holmes/Watson-come-Bruce/Dick roles and is criminally underknown.
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Any ecclesiastical aspect often places second to the simple good looks of such underknown artists as painter Alberto Burri and sculptor Giacomo Manzu.
Buying Into The Buzz 2007
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Another installment in my all-too-occasional series of looks at culturally-significant, underknown phenomena and events, "1000 Words."
Archive 2006-11-01 Ed Gorman 2006
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Another installment in my all-too-occasional series of looks at culturally-significant, underknown phenomena and events, '1000 Words.'
2blowhards.com: 1000 Words -- Gold Medal Books Bill Crider 2006
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Another installment in my all-too-occasional series of looks at culturally-significant, underknown phenomena and events, '1000 Words.'
Archive 2006-11-12 Bill Crider 2006
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Another installment in my all-too-occasional series of looks at culturally-significant, underknown phenomena and events, "1000 Words."
Gold Medal Books - 1000 words Ed Gorman 2006
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Through the Twentieth Century, which starts with Braque and Picasso surprise! and includes numerous underknown artists, often female ones, from around the world.
NYT > Home Page By ROBERTA SMITH 2011
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The artist Derrick Adams made most of the choices for this un-Chelsea show, and they're good ones, with a bunch of stimulating newish artists and some familiar, though still underknown figures, brought in for a further look.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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The artist Derrick Adams made most of the choices for this un-Chelsea show, and they're good ones, with a bunch of stimulating newish artists and some familiar, though still underknown figures, brought in for a further look.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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However, he said that Indian efforts were "very underknown and undervalued" and expected external affairs minister SM Krishna to tell the London Conference what India was doing in Afghanistan.
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