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
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
For a time, they stood in some embarrassment, unspeaking, immobile.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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
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
I wonder whether there’s an unspoken rule that friendship with people like this comes with an obligation to live like them.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
There are unspoken rules that news helicopter pilots learn once they join, Lynn said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 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
Yet children often sense the emotional weight regardless, even when the story itself remains unspoken.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
Let us examine the roadblock and the various unspoken assumptions that buttress it.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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