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unwritten
[ uhn-rit-n ]
adjective
- not actually formulated or expressed; customary; traditional.
Synonyms: inferred, tacit, understood, implicit
- not written; not put in writing or print; oral:
an unwritten agreement.
- containing no writing; blank.
unwritten
/ ʌnˈrɪtən /
adjective
- not printed or in writing
- effective only through custom; traditional
- without writing upon it
Word History and Origins
Origin of unwritten1
Example Sentences
A president can do it, indulging his whims through unwritten laws and executive action.
Since 2007, Maulvi Nazir and the Pakistani military had kept to an unwritten truce.
That's precisely the unwritten policy every gay player has adhered to in the history of the NFL.
And what is left is all the books and articles unwritten, the conversations left unspoken.
He chose an unlikely and pretty much unwritten-about place, the dry, flat expanses of eastern Montana.
It is much to be regretted that we are thus deprived of that unwritten chapter of her life.
The baby ably impersonates Society with all its sentiments and laws, written and unwritten.
Both Indians and white men respected the unwritten law which held the theft of food in such a region to be worthy of death.
But an unreliable boy at our school matched this history from the unwritten archives of his vulgar relatives.
It is the unwritten law of all our public life, and the same holds true of America, that an honest open scandal ends a career.
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