unspeak
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Origin of unspeak
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In public life, totalitarianism has corrupted language by its tendency, as Steiner puts it, to "unspeak the actual past" while conjugating its verbs only in the "depersonalized present" and "Utopian future."
From Time Magazine Archive
Observers have said that the "unspeak able hardships" undergone by Senator Borah will place Mr. Hoover deeply in his debt.
From Time Magazine Archive
Spite of all that, I might refuse to unspeak my words, which I never did afore, if it had not been that I wronged the man.
From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
And it started a hope like a lightning-streak That I might go to him—say for a week - And afford you right To put me away, and your vows unspeak.
From Satires of Circumstance, lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces by Thomas Hardy
But it seethes with fathomless challenge, like the unspeaking sea.
From Economist ● May 17, 2018
“Come on people,” he said to the unspeaking officers.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2016
The society she’s chosen is the unspeaking world.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 11, 2016
If Clint Eastwood is forever the unspeaking, vengeful cowboy, then Redford is a disillusioned, hopeful counterpoint.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2013
When we are together in company—Slant, Pomp, Olakunde, my own self, even unspeaking Will—we no longer seem broken, as we did; we no longer seem children, but comrades.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
God grant me faith to stand on guard, Uncheered, unspoke, alone, And see behind such duty hard My service to the throne.
From The Path to Home by Edgar A. (Edgar Albert) Guest
Still doth the evil thing unto thee seem sweeter of utt'rance; Leaving the thing which is good all unspoke, all unaccomplished.
From Verses and Translations by Charles Stuart Calverley
Is it but this,—a tardiness in nature Which often leaves the history unspoke That it intends to do?—My lord of Burgundy, What say you to the lady?
From King Lear by William Shakespeare
But living close to family can come with unspoken expectations and occasional tension due to different parenting styles.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
"It's an unspoken rule that he will pick up the bigger bills."
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
The plot, expanded from Thompson-Hernandez’s Sundance-winning 2022 short of the same name, is more like a gesture toward the family’s unspoken drama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Yet children often sense the emotional weight regardless, even when the story itself remains unspoken.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
But even if I tried, they’d sniff it off me, because it’s so tight in our bedroom that there isn’t enough space for hidden crushes, unspoken names of boyfriends, and secret dates.
From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi
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