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
There was a sort of mad entreaty in his eyes, as if he hoped that by unsaying she could remedy an irremediable disaster, and there was nothing left of him but those panic-stricken, beseeching eyes.
From The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad
"Old men, and far from well, who have lived such a long time in their peace," they have made the laborious journey, and are now valiantly suppressing their homesickness, and unsaying their involuntary complaints.
From Letters of Catherine Benincasa by Saint of Siena Catherine
Highness has a manner to-night which disconcerts me by its novelty; a saying things and then unsaying them; suggesting and then, somehow, treading down the suggestion like a spark of your lightning.
From Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua by Vernon Lee
She wrote again unsaying all she had said, but her father had been too much wounded to reply.
From The Third Miss Symons by F. M. (Flora Macdonald) Mayor
