unlearn

Definitions

Examples

• Learning racial literacy can help young people unlearn and refuse all forms of social domination—to reconfigure, together, how we relate to one another.

• All of us really need to do work into our communities to unlearn these harmful narratives about each other.

• I was shocked by the dramatic discovery, but to really understand it, I first had to unlearn some things.

• I learned some things I can never unlearn about organic decomposition and human bone.

• I learned some things I can't unlearn: human kneecaps look like rocks; bones when burnt, shrink and twist.

• Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

• About how your character and judgments were formed and how you came to unlearn that first and not always painful formation?

• Two friends try to unlearn bad-relationship habits by dating each other, exclusively, for 40 days.

• Who likes to own that he has been a fool all his life,—to unlearn all that he has been taught in his youth?

• As art multiplies, false tastes will arise, the early painters had not so much to unlearn as modern artists.

• Women have to unlearn the false good manners of their slavery before they acquire the genuine good manners of their freedom.