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  • adverb In an unspoken manner; tacitly.

Etymologies

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unspoken +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • "I unspokenly assumed other people read like this, too, until I mentioned to my coworker Julie that I had sore elbows because the book I was reading (Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden) was so good that I'd been reading a lot more per night than usual," writes one employee on the company's Reading Copy book blog.

    Sitting, lying or standing: what's the pole position for reading? 2010

  • This is one of the things they count on in this house, unspokenly—they sit around and wait for him to forget.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • This is one of the things they count on in this house, unspokenly—they sit around and wait for him to forget.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • This is one of the things they count on in this house, unspokenly—they sit around and wait for him to forget.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • CNN as well as other networks clearly distort everything McCain/Palin say or have said in the past to further the candidate that you unspokenly support.

    Let’s talk, no strings attached 2008

  • The best bloggers already unspokenly adhere to a code.

    Comment Central - Times Online - WBLG: 2006

  • The best bloggers already unspokenly adhere to a code.

    Comment Central - Times Online - WBLG: 2006

  • The best bloggers already unspokenly adhere to a code.

    Regulate bloggers? Good luck 2006

  • They shared the newspaper but it was actually, unspokenly, hers.

    THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001

  • They shared the newspaper but it was actually, unspokenly, hers.

    THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001

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