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    unwritten


    1. It was an unwritten law of street life that condemned the miserable to wander aimlessly around Soho’s darker haunts for hours before inevitably ending up back where they had started out from


    2. It was an unwritten law of street life that condemned the


    3. There was a longstanding unwritten and therefore quite tacit understanding between all the Livingsons, natural or adopted, that when the Lodges required extra manpower, they each pitched in to help


    4. you a shot, it was an unwritten rule that you took it


    5. By then it had become an unwritten vow, they wouldn't stop until everything was accomplished


    6. “It’s a rule that goes back centuries, unwritten or not


    7. What’s more, if a woman over 18 was not yet betrothed or married, an unwritten Babylonian law allowed the king to take her as a concubine


    8. She thought she and Shelagh had come to an unwritten compromise about their differences! But Shelagh was being a right bitch! Rosemary was making up her mind to say it out straight when the phone rang


    9. This was the unwritten rule and worked well in my time


    10. It’s one of those unwritten laws

    11. If so, it had been a fool’s errand: his soul wouldn’t be bought for a handful of golden coins! Never had they cooperated in a single venture, with the exception of an unwritten or spoken pact of mutual non-interference


    12. I certainly do it as a matter of course now and have not noticed any slackening of this unwritten rule yet


    13. At last he knows it’s me, he knows it’s Dad! Often, though, babies quite understandably will smile at Mum first, so we continue with this unwritten competition


    14. 2 Because at that time the unwritten law was named among them; And the works of the commandments were then fulfilled; And belief in the coming judgment was then generated; And hope of the world that was to be renewed was then built up; And the promise of the life that should come hereafter was implanted


    15. ” An unwritten corollary to Article Two was that you had to ask Captain Samuels first


    16. She had broken all her own rules and the unwritten rules of the game


    17. There seems to be an unwritten law that in the open air most people think they have to shout, or at least speak louder than usual, so as the youths silently munched they learned that Greg would be pleased when his mother went home


    18. It was unwritten for centuries, but nearly two hundred years ago it was scripted in stone


    19. In reality this came with the unwritten caveat to the management of those public bodies that there would be, of course, no change to the conclusions reached by the investigating bodies at the time


    20. “I’m scared of holding on to you against all the unwritten rules of my society

    21. "The unwritten rule holds that a hack should be


    22. unwritten rule that says anything can mentioned, regardless of how trivial or


    23. There are unwritten rules when it comes to physical linking, inter-


    24. To Greg it seemed as though the unwritten law of attraction were at work when he learned that Grant was a butcher


    25. There is an unwritten set of


    26. An unwritten rule of the monitors in this room was that they were not supposed to listen into the President‘s private conversations in the Oval Office unless there was a vital national security emergency for doing so


    27. They hang there, all those unwritten, unheard, unspoken words—at the edge of our consciousness—slipped from others’ consciences into our own, if we’re fool enough to leave a door open


    28. The rest is still unwritten"


    29. But the three riders ignored this unwritten rule


    30. The only difference is that my crime is unofficial, my punishment unwritten

    31. It's also important for a competitor to employ psychology as a weapon against his rivals; once of the basic, unwritten rules of the Iditarod is to force your rival into making a mistake


    32. But nobody ever mentions… that this unwritten rule is precisely the dynamic which corrupts your own humanity


    33. What is unspoken and unwritten: Shapes and moulds all human societies one thousand times more effectively and destructively; than what is consciously written and spoken


    34. Where is the history of Western Civilization’s subconscious, unconscious, instinctive motives, urges, forces, and energies…? Where is the history of its unwritten, unspoken assumptions? Nowhere


    35. unless you understand ALL of their subconscious assumptions and unspoken Normalities, and instinctive motives, and their unspoken, unwritten thoughts and feelings and actions also


    36. Unless you understand ALL the unspoken, unwritten assumptions, norms, and corruptions of the culture they were born into, and the unspoken norms of whatever religion they believed-in, and the unspoken norms of the class they came from, and the unspoken norms of the neighborhood they grew up in


    37. � When the child moves out of the structure of the hierarchy, the child steps outside the unwritten but profoundly felt law of domination


    38. ” I knew that the unwritten rule in Fritz’s school was that we didn’t counsel students to use the post-secondary college program because it reduced our budget


    39. Modern critics are agreed that the Sadducees, properly speaking, were a priestly and aristocratic party, professing to 'stand upon the old ways,’ to adhere closely to the Mosaic law, taken in its most literal and limited sense, to reject tradition, and that 'oral law’ of unwritten explications and additions, which their opponents the Pharisees made the rule of all their thought and action


    40. Christendom likewise has its 'oral law,’ its unwritten tradition, on which rests the fabric of modern ecclesiastical religion

    41. Each one of those cultures will also have their own etiquette rules, many of them unwritten


    42. After many tears an unwritten contract was drawn up between us: first, that I would never leave Marfa Petrovna and would always be her husband; secondly, that I would never absent myself without her permission; thirdly, that I would never set up a permanent mistress; fourthly, in return for this, Marfa Petrovna gave me a free hand with the maidservants, but only with her secret knowledge; fifthly, God forbid my falling in love with a woman of our class; sixthly, in case I--which God forbid--should be visited by a great serious passion I was bound to reveal it to Marfa Petrovna


    43. And above all, I said, and as the result of all, see how sensitive the citizens become; they chafe impatiently at the least touch of authority, and at length, as you know, they cease to care even for the laws, written or unwritten; they will have no one over them


    44. Within the military officer corps there is both written and unwritten doctrine requiring political neutrality


    45. These women, so swift to kindness, so tender to the sorrowing, so untiring in times of their unwritten code


    46. After many tears an unwritten contract was drawn up between us: first, that I would never leave Marfa Petrovna and would always be her husband; secondly, that I would never absent myself without her permission; thirdly, that I would never set up a permanent mistress; fourthly, in return for this, Marfa Petrovna gave me a free hand with the maidservants, but only with her secret knowledge; fifthly, God forbid my falling in love with a woman of our class; sixthly, in case I—which God forbid—should be visited by a great serious passion I was bound to reveal it to Marfa Petrovna


    47. These were heavy impressions to struggle against, and brought that melancholy embitterment which is the consequence of all excessive claim: even his religious faith wavered with his wavering trust in his own authorship, and the consolations of the Christian hope in immortality seemed to lean on the immortality of the still unwritten Key to all Mythologies


    48. It’s an unwritten rule on the force, you never count them


    49. MICHAEL SULLIVAN WAS BREAKING the time-honored customs and unwritten rules of the Family, and he knew it


    50. More than ever was Boris resolved to serve in future not according to the written code, but under this unwritten law












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    Synonyms for "unwritten"

    ad-lib spontaneous unwritten oral spoken vocal accepted understood

    "unwritten" definitions

    based on custom rather than documentation


    using speech rather than writing


    said or done without having been planned or written in advance