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
“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
Much more believable is his father Nikolay, unspeaking and frenetic, chopping up wood for a winter that he must know he will never see.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2012
Wearing deep mourning, she would have laid on it, perhaps, a wreath of flowers, as other women did; and stood for a moment, head bowed, considering the unspeaking ground.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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
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
An unspoken sense of human deflation is at work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
And if you're the person organising the collection, how do you chase without feeling like a loan shark or exposing unspoken team dynamics?
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Even when intergalactic forces take pains to make the Lantern Corps’ selection process fair, Earth’s unspoken dictates about worthiness make that impossible.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Her eyes met those of Mrs. Apple, whose face shone with unspoken encouragement.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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