How To Use Unlearn In A Sentence

Though the last is listed in Welsh's bibliography, its lessons appear unlearned.
This is good for their profit margins but not healthy brain function - and in any case it can be unlearnt. Times, Sunday Times
It can always be unlearnt. Times, Sunday Times
Of particular beauty here, of course, is the use of utterly inappropriate terms to maintain the rhyme, which saw ‘gloat’ used as a noun directly above this unlearned and unlovely deformed child of a verse.
Infectious complications of medical devices are often not considered in the context of reporting, and so the possible lessons that can minimise recurrence remain unlearnt.

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But linear perspective itself is probably a renaissance not an antique invention, and Durer's approach to ancient architecture is remarkably free and unlearned.
Although the mechanisms which permit modification of behavior are inherited, learned behavior does not emerge from, and is not an extension of, the unlearned behavior of the individual.
He has all the scatophagous faults of the unlearned. Orbis quintus
It is difficult for a 'solo' biker to learn to ride because ingrained habits must be unlearnt. Times, Sunday Times
My cousins were mere cubs, in whose company I might, if I liked it, unlearn whatever decent manners, or elegant accomplishments, I had acquired, but where I could attain no information beyond what regarded worming dogs, rowelling horses, and following foxes. Rob Roy
So angry I could hardly speak, I forced myself to calm for a moment as I danced away with her in my newly-taught but unlearned club-footed manner.
The resolution of problem behaviour must lie in the successful unlearning of such behaviours.
an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues
It was a happy choice; my good genius, I suppose, for you see I was already fairly well read in modern science, and these old Greek philosophies set me thinking backwards, unwinding and unlearning, and getting at that eidolon which is not to be found in the mechanical heavens of this age. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
Critics warn that some lessons of past engineering fiascos remained unlearned.
There the Latinist and sophister and every unlearned writer tries the fitness of his pen, a practice that we have frequently seen injuring the usefulness and value of the most beautiful books. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
That what you call magical or spiritual is only methods unlearned. Think Progress » House passes stem cell research bill.
You must start by unlearning all the bad habits your previous piano teacher taught you!
unlearned and commonsensical countryfolk were capable of solving problems that beset the more sophisticated
We had a choir director intent on unlearning our juvenile inflections.
How, then, to master the fear and uncertainty that, so painfully learnt, can never be unlearnt? Times, Sunday Times
The vulgarity is not _the_ vulgarity of the vulgar -- the inelegancy is not the spontaneous rudeness of the ill-bred -- any more than its doctrine of nature is the doctrine of the unlearned. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
Before you know it, you will have unlearned the debt habit.
I find myself having to tell my students to unlearn this tendency by, among others, asking them to throw their thesaurus away, especially when the only reason they turn to it is to find a fancier word for something as basic as “talk” (expostulate?) or “walk” (perambulate?) Archive 2010-03-01
You must start by unlearning all the bad habits your previous piano teacher taught you!
What we do know is that they dabble in forbidden magic, unlearned fools who wish for more power than they can handle.
I have more than once been impressed by the difference between ‘learned and unlearned hands’ in the performance of some difficult physical task.
`You can't unlearn what you know from being in love,' she lamented, `and that's why you see things differently. THE MANANA MAN
It will force you to unlearn some bad habits that you might have picked up and also allows you to upgrade your skills and aeronautical knowledge.
It is difficult to unlearn behaviours that made us successful in the past: listening instead of speaking, valuing the contributions of others, rather than depending on yourself for everything.
Studies have confirmed that the phenomenon is biological, automatic and apparently unlearned, distinct from both hallucination and metaphor.
The popular elements are graphically depicted in its literal plot, which represents the level that can be grasped by the unlearned audiences.
To suggest that the number of monks who were actually literate is quite small should not be taken to mean that they had no experience with literacy or were completely unlearned.
declared Matsa frantically as he hit what would have been the enter key on a non elven computer, but in the unlearned language Matsa wasn't sure of it.
Perseverance and patience both go a long way to helping those around us either in the workplace or in our own private life learn and take on new skills, and try to unlearn bad habits.
Out-of-control anger is a learned behavior, so you have to unlearn it.
They provide a viable bridge between the learned and the unlearned.
Every great inventor or scientist has had to unlearn conventional wisdom in order to proceed with his work.
I almost regretted resurrecting metagrobolize, but it is very difficult to unlearn a word! Unnatural ‘preternaturally’, naturally
Now if I should preach in the country, among the unlearned, I would tell what propitiatory, expiatory, and remissory is; but here is a learned auditory: yet for them that be unlearned I will expound it. Sermons on the Card
The first few nights I slept on the lounge room floor, I was plagued with a multitude of simple life lessons unlearnt in any other experience in my existence.
I've had to unlearn the way I played guitar since I started taking formal lessons.
Sandy was once more demonstrating his inefficiency as a cook, and when he remembered that Sandy's name was printed smudgily upon that page of his life which he had lately turned down as a blotted, unlearned lesson is pushed behind an unwilling schoolboy, he began to consider seriously his next step. The Uphill Climb
There are certain lessons from the war in Afghanistan that should not go unlearnt.
This ‘lesson’ has not yet been unlearned, despite 3 years of catastrophic losses since March 2000.
That those evils of prelaty, which before from five or six and twenty sees were distributively charged upon the whole people, will now light wholly upon learning, is not obscure to us: whenas now the pastor of a small unlearned parish on the sudden shall be exalted archbishop over a large diocese of books, and yet not remove, but keep his other cure too, a mystical pluralist. Areopagitica
Sperry showed that if nerve connections were rearranged - for example, by redirecting to the other side of the animal the sensory nerves that innervate the left foot of a rat - inappropriate responses resulted that could not be unlearned. Roger Wolcott Sperry
The study asks whether the curriculum led to learning of unlearning racism.
Predators are able to learn to avoid prey exhibiting warning colors but they may also have unlearned aversions towards certain colors or patterns.
They learn new roles and unlearn old ones.
In this respect, the lesson of Korea remains unlearned.
Catania suggested that organisms' preference for choice may be unlearned with a phylogenic basis.
To finally unlearn our lessons And alter our stance.
The area that extends beyond the ZPD contains tasks that are unlearned and, at the moment, are beyond the learner's present capability and cultural wisdom for learning.
His imagination had to unlearn its intense partiality and localism; his tutor apparently assumed that already as young children we have learned narrow sectarian types of loyalty.
Either way, excuse me please, I am after all, illiterate and unlearned.
Interestingly, pyrazines can interact with visual cues in non-experienced predators to induce or enhance unlearned responses.
Of particular beauty here, of course, is the use of utterly inappropriate terms to maintain the rhyme, which saw ‘gloat’ used as a noun directly above this unlearned and unlovely deformed child of a verse.
I'm completely unlearned, but don't use that as a crutch to play me for a fool.
Therefore, it has to be used for a while (after you read the manual) before you unlearn your present habits and can begin to appreciate it.
In short, sin is a great and powerful god who devours the whole human race, all the learned, holy, powerful, wise, and unlearned men.
My daddy was an unlearned man, he was abused as a child.
And yet, with his father at his side, unlearning bad habits was a comparatively small thing for Brake to ask of himself.
He is here when we unlearn the violence and greed we are inculcated with as Americans, and practice peacemaking and reconciliation.
You begin to see this as a bit of a habit as well, and perhaps you can unlearn bits of it.
Change requires the individual or group to unlearn old habits, methods of performing routine tasks, and customary thought patterns.
Without that impalpable, unlearnable impulsion, today's composers struggle to make us feel that their operas have any real point. Times, Sunday Times
misanthropist" who has vowed henceforth to call a spade a spade, and on the other the gentleman who cannot unlearn, in a trice, the usual forms of politeness, or even, it may be, just the honest fellow who, when called upon to put his words into practice, shrinks from wounding another's self-esteem or hurting his feelings. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
In life, we have to learn, unlearn, and relearn if we are to improve ourselves and better our lives. Dr T.P.Chia
The Baldwin effect is sometimes referred to as the simple notion that, through evolution, unlearned can replace learned behavior.
What I learned from them specifically of the techniques of teaching I have had to do my best to unlearn since.
Any good elder does not deal with these false curses to start with, and would never give them out to an unlearned person to cause chaos with.
The good news is that just as negative thinking styles are learned, so can they be unlearned.
However, these associations can be 'unlearnt'. Times, Sunday Times
And since this is the reality in Jamaica, the school should also be the place to unlearn what has been mistaught.
It is a history of dreams of empire, and of lessons unlearned.
Alcaldes, most of them unlearned in any system of jurisprudence, and unconversant with legal proceedings of any description, have been elected to administer a code, scattered through hundreds of volumes and written in languages of which they did not understand one word. Texas : a Brief Account of the Origin, Progress and Present State of the Colonial Settlements of Texas; Together with an Exposition of the Causes which have induced the Existing War with Mexico
Current events show that the object lesson remains unlearnt. Times, Sunday Times
An unlearned spontaneity breathes life into the best pieces here.
They had no middle-class fear of weapons, no panic at the sight of a gun to unlearn. DESTROY THE KENTUCKY
Union bosses believe railway maintenance workers are still risking their lives because lessons from the Tebay rail tragedy remain unlearned.
Like any great band, Wilco are unlearning their strengths in order to discover new ones.
Yet another lesson of the banking crisis has been unlearnt. Times, Sunday Times
It took him a long time to unlearn what he learned in his childhood.
I'm going to tell him that there's a kid here with a lot of passion but just… unlearned.
The procedure for the trial, whose expenses are unknown to the parties until after the damage has been inflicted, is a scourge for every person unlearned in law.
They had no middle-class fear of weapons, no panic at the sight of a gun to unlearn. DESTROY THE KENTUCKY
Here as elsewhere, Marcus is determined to unlearn the unwise attachments to externals that he has learned from his culture.
That this lesson has not entirely gone unlearnt is shown by the conclusions drawn by Armind Virmani of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations.
Most of my Somerset will have to stay unlearned, leaving the county, the land and the people to grow in my mind on a basis of myth and wishful thinking.
To learn virtue is to unlearn vice.
The lesson remains unlearned because the scenario recurs again and again throughout the Hong Kong filmmaker's work.
Further, if the general levels of literacy and learning cited by these studies is accurate, should we perhaps look differently at the evidence found in the Apophthegmata Patrum regarding tensions between learned and unlearned monks?
Ryan was just getting to his office, having driven himself in, a habit which he had just unlearned. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
`You can't unlearn what you know from being in love,' she lamented, `and that's why you see things differently. THE MANANA MAN
And the same lessons about cover-ups still go unlearnt.
Typically, unlearning old habits is harder than learning new ones, so much of the time in lessons focuses on learning to inhibit old bodily responses.
I needed on-the-job training for this new role, but it felt as though things were moving too fast for me to unlearn old habits and learn new skills all at the same time.
You might say I'm unlearned, but there's one thing I know, even Jesus would never forgive what you do…
Pre toddlers don't have to unlearn any bad foreign buying habits.
For Somalia itself, the lessons remain unlearned.
The programme helps participants by giving them a clear-cut plan of action to focus on positive attitude, unlearn bad habits and build healthy relationships.
They do not know that they do not know, and their unlearned ignorance keeps them in the dark about most things that matter.
If Yaakov, a person unlearned in the ways of the world, could so easily trick Yitzchak to believe he was the material son Esav, than how easily could Esav, a cunning hunter, trick Yitzchak into thinking that he was the learned one!
One time, a chassid who was a diamond merchant asked the rabbi what virtues he saw in these unlearned people.
An uncomfortable place that would force us to learn about our mutual dependence and unlearn patriotic virtues.
With the unlearnt condescension of a son, I gave him an inch of space and he took it: burying a jumpshot over my half-stretched hand.
So composite and incongruous is this body of Nile-goers, young and old, well-dressed and ill-dressed, learned and unlearned, that the new-comer's first impulse is to inquire from what motives so many persons of dissimilar tastes and training can be led to embark upon an expedition which is, to say the least of it, very tedious, very costly, and of an altogether exceptional interest. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
teach somebody to unlearn old habits or methods
Before you know it, you will have unlearned the debt habit.
The unlearned lesson from Russia at the time was that companies underestimated the huge costs needed to upgrade the country's oil infrastructure to tap its potentially huge supplies across its scattered oil wells.
In life, we have to learn, unlearn, and relearn if we are to improve ourselves and better our lives. Dr T.P.Chia
I hope that others can assemble the jagged rhythms of my stories to unlearn common misperceptions about vernacular English.
– for a desire for intercommunion is one of the strong instincts of our nature, and yet it is one which, as regards all the rest of creation but our human fellow-beings, we have to unlearn from babyhood. Parables From Nature
It's like they know something we don't, something we've forgotten or unlearnt. Times, Sunday Times
You'll have to unlearn all the bad habits you learned with your last piano teacher.
The first assumption of POM / HR is that every human being is born with a source of psychological health - a natural, unlearned thinking process that is always rational, lucid, and functional.
Plato said that philosophy is a meditation on and a preparation for death; Seneca said that he or she who learns how to die unlearns slavery; and Montaigne said that to philosophize is to learn how to die. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Sadly, this means that sometimes lessons go unlearned.
It is so easy to see how lessons remain unlearned and nations still strike out at others in the name of moral good, religious certainty or pure evil.
It's difficult to unlearn bad driving habits.
I now see that in spite of my learning I am not able to put it into practice, I am not better than an unlearned man.
I prefer Anther to Anthera, in Englifh, be - caufe we thus avoid any diffenfion between the learned and unlearned refpecting the pronun - ciation of the penultima, and the formation of the plural. The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...
McCain bluffed Obama weeks before, challenging him to make the trip as he was in his eyes, callow and unlearned in the intricacies of foreign policy. Top Dog / Underdog
Life is a process of learning, unlearning and relearning. Hardships, obstacles and failures are the learning lessons. Dr T.P.Chia
I've had to unlearn the way I played guitar since I started taking formal lessons.
Every great inventor or scientist has had to unlearn conventional wisdom in order to proceed with his work.
Part of building community movements is unlearning old ways of doing things.
Of particular beauty here, of course, is the use of utterly inappropriate terms to maintain the rhyme, which saw ‘gloat’ used as a noun directly above this unlearned and unlovely deformed child of a verse.
Indocti discant et ament meminisse periti (Let the unlearned learn, and the learned delight in remembering). Quotations
The learned and unlearned; the healthy and the sick; the intelligent the not so intelligent; the rich or the poor, males or female, children or adolescent, from the young to the very old; of every tongue and nation.
-- There are, however, artists who have too much self-confidence, that is ill-founded confidence, founded rather upon a certain dexterity than upon a habit of thought; they are like the improvisatori in poetry; and most commonly, as Metastasio acknowledged of himself, had much to unlearn, to acquire a habit of thinking with selection. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843
However, yet again that lesson appears to have gone unlearned, now by Lil’ Kim.
Instead it is a process of re-education during which the individual unlearns poor posture and movement that has led to tension and sometimes pain in the body.
But dismissing your opponents as uneducable and unlearned by making dismissive remarks about the quality of their teachers serves no useful purpose.
The site functions, therefore, as an exchange of information, from the learned to the unlearned, under the assumption that the latter can benefit or be improved upon in some way.
But dismissing your opponents as uneducable and unlearned by making dismissive remarks about the quality of their teachers serves no useful purpose.
His imagination had to unlearn its intense partiality and localism; his tutor apparently assumed that already as young children we have learned narrow sectarian types of loyalty.
This is a lesson that must be unlearnt. Times, Sunday Times
Arguments from incredulity wallow in a vulgar populism that elevates appeal to unlearned prejudice to a categorical imperative.
They learn new roles and unlearn old ones.
If you have a test and discover you are not the father of a child you always thought was yours, you can't unlearn that fact.

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