unspeak
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
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
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
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
But it seethes with fathomless challenge, like the unspeaking sea.
From Economist ● May 17, 2018
The society she’s chosen is the unspeaking world.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 11, 2016
Two days before, Justice Minister Christiana Tah had sat unspeaking at a meeting with international donors.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2014
If Clint Eastwood is forever the unspeaking, vengeful cowboy, then Redford is a disillusioned, hopeful counterpoint.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2013
Nina and the bald man sat, unspeaking, as the minutes ticked by, and when the hour on the clock chimed, he rose and kissed her hand.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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
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
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
The rules from the wallet-sized card felt a lot like the unspoken ones that horror movies’ “final girls” must follow to survive, too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
But living close to family can come with unspoken expectations and occasional tension due to different parenting styles.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
Body-language and facial-expression experts regularly claim to be able to decipher, for instance, the unspoken relationships between celebrities on the red carpet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
For families in which trauma remains unspoken, silence can become a pattern, one that risks extending across generations.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
He whooshes from the room, leaving a dark, heavy cloud of the unspoken behind.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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