unsay
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I know that I cannot unsay those words, but please accept my sincerest apologies.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2019
Yet he can’t unsay what was said on the audio tape.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 13, 2018
And then they unsay it, and they keep unsaying it, breaking their own rules over and over again.
From The Guardian ● May 13, 2017
Galliano can’t unsay or undo the gross, offensive things that happened two years ago.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2013
He wanted to unsay all the things he had said about her—even unsay the things Leslie had said.
From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
Lethem’s revisionist project ultimately unsays as much as it says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
There is something half laughable and half provoking in the facility with which he asserts and retracts, says and unsays, exactly as suits his argument.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
She unsays her words, she gives herself the lie, she says to the children, “Be old!”
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Michelet, Jules
Do not accuse him of falsehood because he unsays on a Tuesday the words he said on the Monday.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
"Marry him without a word against it to dread from me—so long as he unsays the words and undoes the deeds which have thrown a doubt on the marriage of Arnold and Blanche."
From Man and Wife by Collins, Wilkie
Or is that a conversation better left unsaid?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
John F. Kennedy was a sailor and "the second most good-looking president," Trump said, leaving unsaid who is the first.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
This week on Amicus, that changes: Two judges sat down with us to talk openly about what often goes unsaid.
From Slate ● May 9, 2026
Left unsaid was the fact that Steyer’s firm had extensive financial ties to San Diego’s Accredited Home Lenders, one of the biggest subprime mortgage lenders in the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
I can see and hear, as was my wont; and little of what you have half said or left unsaid is now hidden from me.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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
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)
"I unsay every word," said Mr. Merridew, for the second time, and more pointedly than ever; for, even in his really generous emotion, he could not help feeling that it was unsaying a great deal.
From Denis Dent A Novel by Hornung, Ernest W.
But what is all this, good worthy Baxter, but saying and unsaying?
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
