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US
/əˈnɑnəməs/
]
[ UK /ɐnˈɒnəməs/ ]
[ UK /ɐnˈɒnəməs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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not known or lacking marked individuality
anonymous bureaucrats in the Civil Service
brown anonymous houses -
having no known name or identity or known source
anonymous authors
anonymous donors
an anonymous gift
How To Use anonymous In A Sentence
- If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
- It likewise furthered the career of Mary Shelley as "The Author of Frankenstein," the rubric under which she continued her anonymous publication with a second novel immersed in medieval Italian history, Valperga: or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (1823). Biography
- The officials and diplomats spoke anonymously because of the delicacy of the negotiations on what tack to take on Iran.
- By its nature it will be great for political rights management, because it's an enormously penetrative surveillance tool, and it makes it hard to do anything anonymously involving a computer.
- Fontaine has prettily set it off, and an anonymous writer has composed it in Latin Anacreontic verses; and at length our Prior has given it with equal gaiety and freedom. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
- Aragon's writings circulated anonymously or under pseudonyms.
- His work remained hermetically anonymous.
- BTW … the online article was written long ago and the LJW staff will, I am sure, update it when they have puddleglum (Anonymous) says … kansas redlegs: yeah I know exactly what you mean. LJWorld.com stories: News
- The attorney for one of the accused denounced what he calls cowardly and anonymous leakers at the Pentagon. CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2006
- It is a secure, multilingual website on which company employees can anonymously report any bribe demands that they receive. Times, Sunday Times