I will laugh at evil and it will die unstated;
He had to obey his father's wishes, even if the wishes were unstated.
The true riddle is essentially a comparison between the unstated answer and something else that is described in the question.
" The unstated subtext of Hu's speech was clear: Beijing fears it is losing control of its provinces— and this had better stop.
With continued failures to replicate, and with continued defensiveness and evasiveness on the part of Henry, the suspicion grew, usually unstated, that Henry may have made up those findings.
The implication was plain, if left unstated.
There is even fear of an unstated intention to replace Chinese characters totally, eventually.
A set of established rules or practices, usually unstated, intended to minimize confusion or conflict. Often used in the plural.
The unstated implication of the state-by-state report was that the states where income disparities are lower are somehow " fairer" than the states with high disparities.
Their reasoning was based on a set of unstated assumptions.
You must understand not only stated expectations, but also the unstated expectations of people with different cultural backgrounds.
Even when you send emails to other bloggers, readers, advertisers and the like, you are sending an unstated message... and it should be in line with your core message.
The unstated implication of these questions is that someone is considering moving these missions up NASA's priority list.
Traditional project management has an unstated assumption that all along you can see something; the huge hole in the ground has been dug, the foundation is laid, steel girders are in place.
A few of these leave part of the sentence unstated but understood: "No fool like an old fool," "Penny-wise and pound foolish," etc.
Unfortunately, that behavior includes an unstated assumption that the data has already been validated.
And what is most important in relation to that cognitive map is not what is overtly stated and discussed - but what is left unstated, or ignored.
