Sentence examples for unsay from inspiring English sources
The word "unsay" is correct and usable in written English
It means to take back or retract something that you have previously said. You can use "unsay" when you want to express regret or a change of mind about something you have said. For example: 1. "I didn't mean to hurt your feelings with my comment. Can I unsay it and start over?" 2. "I take back what I said earlier. It was out of line and I apologize." 3. "I wish I could unsay all the hurtful things I said in the heat of the moment." 4. "Once something is said, you can't unsay it. Choose your words carefully." 5. "Her apology was sincere, but she couldn't unsay the hurtful words she had uttered."
verb
To withdraw, retract (something said).
In a broadcast on June 22 , 1941 while refusing to "unsay" any of his earlier criticisms of Communism, he insisted that "the Russian danger…is our danger" and pledged aid to the Russian people.
So there will be no repentance, no attempt to unsay what has been said.
Third, and more important, I didn't want to say anything that I would have to unsay later.
The Politwoops site, which archives tweets deleted by US politicians, has an entire page devoted to things The Donald tried to unsay, many of them entirely innocuous.
"What happens is the prime minister is so arrogant that he thinks he can unsay words and make them miraculously disappear," Shorten said.
It is there in print and you can't unsay it', but generally the ethos of the training is you are all paid professionals, we trust that you won't put something unprofessional on there.
Ms. Moscowitz also worries about reluctant caregivers, and urges them to find support groups where they can say the supposedly unsay-able, and to sign up early for community services — hotlines, senior centers, day programs, meals on wheels — that can help lighten the load.
Alston's position, however, may not square well with the explicitly "unsaying" trends in mysticism.
As we have seen above, while there do occur forms of expression that are contradictory, the contradiction is often removed by the device of "unsaying" or canceling out, which propels the discourse into a non-discursive realm.
A fourth possibility lies in the ongoing negation of whatever is said about X, ad infinitum, in what Michael Sells has called an infinite "unsaying" or taking back of what has been said (See Sells, 1994, Chapter 1).
There is little question that the sophistication of Otherwise than Being lies in its three innovations: 1) the analyses and figural expression of transcendence-in-immanence; 2) the critique of language as the site in which existence arises, and 3) the 'wager' of stepping out of philosophical reasoning into a performative register that 'says' and 'unsays' itself.
