Definition of "unspeak" []

• Obsolete To retract (something spoken); unsay. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "How does corporate unspeak from Scottsdale, Arizona get embedded in the procedural manuals of the Mounted Police?"
• "Her dark eyes are eloquent with unspeak -able wistfulness, and her countenance is clouded with something very like regret."
• "I agree that the committee should just have used 'a proper sanction ', rather than' not an improper sanction ', but that's committee-speak (unspeak) for you."