unspoken

Example Sentences

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But Takaichi has declined to retract her remarks, saying she was only stating longstanding, if largely unspoken, Japanese policy.

From The Wall Street Journal

It was one of those unspoken rules that Mom was always talking about—those things that people are supposed to know without having to be told.

From Literature

Her lips moved, and her small face, with its badly cut fringe, was vivid with unspoken thought.

From Literature

He says there are the official rules, then there are further unspoken rules: "It's really difficult to know what the boundaries are, they are forever shifting."

From BBC

It’s an unspoken rule that you don’t talk about what happens during your rite.

From Literature