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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Digressing and being indirect or evasive
bury the ledeidiom
candy coat
candy coating
candy-coated
circumlocution
circumlocutory
f-bomb
get on to/onto something
glancingly
gloss over something
go off on a tangentidiom
implicit
obscure
parry
prevaricate
stray
tangent
tiptoe around something/someone
unexpressed
unvoiced

unspoken | American Dictionary

unspoken
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ʌnˈspoʊ·kən/
not stated, although thought, understood, or felt:
We have an unspoken agreement to share the housework.

Examples of unspoken

unspoken
This suggests that his theory is less important in his own practice, and in the practice of others, than unspoken and unverified matters of taste.
A discourse refers to language, but it has unspoken as well as spoken aspects.
Some of these "others" did not seem to want to leave the truth about their diagnoses unspoken.
As such, gesture has the potential to offer insight into speakers' unspoken thoughts, whether those speakers are children or adults.
Of course, the extreme view of conservatism as 'unspoken wisdom' threatens to remove conservatism from the agenda of political theorizing altogether.
It is important to state once again that this critique of voice revolves around a quiet, unspoken voice directly tied to consciously intended meaning.
Victimization achieves the status of an unspoken communal understanding.
It is meant to capture the fact that quotes can introduce unspoken mental activity such as thoughts or opinions as well as outwardly occurring speech.
Imaginative themes often emerged in this study through an amalgam of the spoken and the unspoken.
This might have created an unspoken assumption that raised pitch and exaggerated pitch excursions are typical of all participants within a cultural-linguistic group.
If anything, the security apparatus of the state remains accountable to a mostly unspoken counterfactual: how much worse would things be without them?
Despite their authors' excellent research, these chapters are troubling in their unspoken ideological bias.
Their unspoken rationale: that science should not override what the legal entity of marriage accomplished.
Relying initially on the ambiguities of unspoken censorship, the new regime only gradually moved towards the effective suppression of all political comment.
Cruelty is the violent awakening of consciousness to the horrors of life that had previously remained unconscious, both unseen and unspoken.
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