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Meanings of unsaid in English

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      1
      She thus raised, at a rather inopportune moment, the great unspoken problem.
      The Irish Times
      2
      A great deal of what was as yet unspoken fell into place.
      The hellfire club
      3
      He'd honored her unspoken request for space-hadgiven her time to think.
      Nocturnal
      4
      Sara saw that he noted her unspoken words and hadn't taken offense.
      Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad
      5
      Armed with information, experts can exert a gigantic, if unspoken, leverage: fear.
      Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of ever...
      1
      And to her everything in the venerable city teemed with unexpressed lyric.
      The Lure of the Mask
      2
      Ambrose could feel their unexpressed sneers like goads in the raw flesh.
      The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
      3
      The unexpressed factor is part of my revenge; what can I do?
      Poor Relations
      4
      He turned to Juliette with an unexpressed query in his adder-like eyes.
      I Will Repay
      5
      But his views as to the murder of Clark he left unexpressed.
      A Book of Remarkable Criminals
      1
      I try to shriek, but the sound gurgles unuttered in my throat.
      The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories:...
      2
      He retired with them and his unuttered verses in his crumpled bosom.
      The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
      3
      Some inane reply forced its way through the press of unuttered avowals.
      David Malcolm
      4
      Marking my curiosity before it was expressed, he answered the unuttered question.
      Adventures Among Books
      5
      She tried to whisper an explanation, but he hushed the words unuttered.
      The Tidal Wave and Other Stories
      1
      In unvoiced plosives children with specific language impairment demonstrated more often substitutions.
      Pubmed
      2
      It's definitely a day where advice or strong opinions should remain unvoiced!
      The South African
      3
      Whose strengths were fortitude and watchfulness and an unvoiced depth of caring.
      The darkest road
      4
      In answer to his unvoiced question, one captain, Luc Valonforth, said, Apologies, milord.
      Arthas: rise of the lich king
      5
      Others see it simply as goy spelled backwards, with the final consonant unvoiced.
      Kalooki Nights
      1
      Perhaps its intentions, if still unstated and relentlessly undefined, are ultimately malevolent.
      Outposts: journeys to the surviving relics of the british empire
      2
      That was my unstated reward for all the good they've done me.
      Surrender to the will of the night
      3
      Through the last staccato sentences there ran an unstated sense of desperation.
      Timescape
      4
      Trump and Zuckerberg have formed an unspoken, almost certainly unstated, strategic alliance.
      The Guardian
      5
      They were white, Protestant, with an unstated tolerance for a few Catholics.
      All That Is
      1
      This dominance can mean a belittling of men at home and an uneasiness, often unverbalised, about their presence in the playground, for example.
      The Guardian
      Usage of unsaid in English
      1
      But then, I reflected, the best words are often those left unsaid.
      My Name is Legion
      2
      For Jon Fosse, what's left unsaid is as important as what's said.
      The Irish Times
      3
      Nothing is left unsaid; his consciousness is open for all to explore.
      The Irish Times
      4
      Although it is unsaid, it will also probably also prevent software piracy.
      Wired
      5
      He left the rest unsaid; but they knew well what was meant.
      Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigands of Greece
      6
      He left the rest unsaid, but she knew what he was thinking.
      Oracle's Queen
      7
      Yes, verily; though perchance it were better to leave such words unsaid.
      The Secret Chamber at Chad
      8
      She made him acquaint with tales which had been better left unsaid.
      The Nibelungenlied
      9
      She had been reminded then of the things that yet remained unsaid.
      The Helpmate
      10
      In these tiny snatches of patient-doctor contact, what's going unseen or unsaid?
      The Guardian
      11
      They are sometimes unwritten, and oftentimes unsaid, but there are always rules.
      Ebony
      12
      He had better have left that word unsaid, for it ruined him.
      Memoirs
      13
      And that one may be a word never to be unsaid-orgainsaid.
      Within the Law: From the Play of Bayard Veiller
      14
      He certainly left a great deal unsaid which this babbling world expects.
      The Vultures
      15
      Elsie could have told them all that was left unsaid at breakfast.
      The Captain of the Kansas
      16
      Each time she opened her mouth she said something best left unsaid.
      The Enchanted April
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