unsaying

Example Sentences

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And then they unsay it, and they keep unsaying it, breaking their own rules over and over again.

From The Guardian • May 13, 2017

I gave him no chance of unsaying with grace or credit what he could not fail to regret that he had said.

From A Great Emergency and Other Tales by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

Time and again in her heart of hearts had she planned how those unsaying words should be said, and said just as soon as ever he came, but he came rather soon and suddenly.

From A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike by King, Charles

But what is all this, good worthy Baxter, but saying and unsaying?

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

He could not conceive of the Titan "unsaying his high language, and quailing before his successful and perfidious adversary."

From Percy Bysshe Shelley by Symonds, John Addington