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
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
The society she’s chosen is the unspeaking world.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 11, 2016
Her final hope for vengeance lies in the brawny form of a mysterious, unspeaking knight whose face is hidden by armor.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 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
On the balcony of Haus West, Hitler turned and strode back into the building, unspeaking.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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
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
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
Introducing someone as a stepsister evokes a host of unspoken disclaimers: Not my real sister!
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
"It's an unspoken rule that he will pick up the bigger bills."
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
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
Maybe all the things we’d left unspoken between us could remain that way.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
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