Definition of Unwritten

Unwritten

Not written; not reduced to writing; oral; as, unwritten agreements.

Containing no writing; blank; as, unwritten paper.

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Unwritten Quotations

There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.
Spike Lee

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.
Ron Wood

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?
Rebecca West

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
Christopher Lasch

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
Bo Bennett

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.
John Le Carre

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
John Perry Barlow

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.
Kurt Huber

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
Nadine Gordimer

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.
Charles Davenport

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Unwritten Translations

unwritten in German is ungeschriebene, ungeschrieben
unwritten in Spanish is no escrito
unwritten in Swedish is oskriven

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