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

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

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

She wrote again unsaying all she had said, but her father had been too much wounded to reply.

From The Third Miss Symons by Mayor, F. M. (Flora Macdonald)

Man saying one thing now, unsaying it anon, Breaking all Engagements, when deeds for him are done.

From The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer by Berens, Lewis Henry

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