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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of unlearn.
  • adjective innate, inherent or inborn.
  • adjective not educated

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Examples

  • Many North Koreans seem to have "unlearnt" basic instincts, such as curiosity.

    Daimnation!: Rollerblading through Pyongyang 2003

  • Indeed, it's great as a training tool for potential future engineers, although a lot will have to be unlearnt in order to move from Lego to poured-concrete construction.

    Snell-Pym » C++ 2009

  • You'd have thought that Labour would have learnt from Crewe & Nantwich that nepotism is unappealing - but then again there are many unlearnt lessons from that campaign.

    Labour Family Trees Praguetory 2009

  • You'd have thought that Labour would have learnt from Crewe & Nantwich that nepotism is unappealing - but then again there are many unlearnt lessons from that campaign.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Praguetory 2009

  • Jatkar Saab loved caps and I made sure I gave him some as I had a large collection, I once stitched a safari suit for him, that pleased him a lot, I must confess whatever I am today , it is because of this great man, he made sure I unlearnt photography, and he talked about Kundalini uncoiling the serpent within - the Indian form of Cartier Bresson's decisive moment.

    Archive 2009-08-01 photographerno1 2009

  • Indeed, it's great as a training tool for potential future engineers, although a lot will have to be unlearnt in order to move from Lego to poured-concrete construction.

    Snell-Pym » 2009 » January 2009

  • There was I a dragoon, roving, unsettled, not self – made like him, but self – unmade — all my earlier advantages thrown away, all my little learning unlearnt, nothing picked up but what unfitted me for most things that I could think of.

    Bleak House 2007

  • Therefore do I here wait, crafty and scornful upon high mountains, no impatient one, no patient one; rather one who hath even unlearnt patience, — because he no longer “suffereth.”

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • Britons learnt many useful arts, to read and to write, to build houses and to make roads; but at the same time, they unlearnt some of their own virtues and, among others, how to think and act for themselves.

    Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion Beatrice Clay

  • But the love-ways that came so easy to him were lessons all unlearnt as yet by her, and he respected both her reticence and her reluctance.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various

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