Retract one's words

Usage examples of unsay.

Ser Balon would have another task as well, but that part was best left unsaid.

That damned biograph left too much unsaid, particularly apparent to a brawn trainee.

A penetrating study of the metapsychology of tabooing and the meanings of the unsaid in Dostoevsky.

The moral interest of the fable, which is so powerfully sustained by the sufferings and endurance of Prometheus, would be annihilated if we could conceive of him as unsaying his high language and quailing before his successful and perfidious adversary.

The barrier they had so carefully constructed between them, of words unsaid and deeds unadmitted, now lay shattered, a victim of the storm.

One of these two possibilities was that the missing people were dead, or else hiding from whoever wanted them that way, a worst-case scenario that, neither wishing to interrupt the appetite of their son, who scarfed pizza under the same suspension of physical law that allows Dagwood Bumstead to eat sandwiches, would have to go unsaid.

The fragile truce she and Reuel had formed on the Korana had left so much unsaid.

Flora a kiss in the air an inch off her cheek and looked vaguely at my sling, finding like Orkney that hands unavailable for shaking left goodbyes half unsaid.

Alethea philosophically to Sue Phipps, her staff nurse, and ten minutes later wished the remark unsaid when the telephone rang to say that there was a compound fracture of tib and fib coming up and that the Orthopaedic Registrar would see it right away.

I think that Kundera might agree that only by unsaying the habitual and honoring the unsayable can the novel be true.

Gini could feel the room reverberate with the unsayable and the unsaid.

And in thy wifehood, I adjure thee now As mother, by the love thou bearest our child, In this thy hour of passion and of love, Of sacrifice and sorrow, to unsay Thy words sublime!

We are taxed till our heads ache to understand--for what is said in the morning is unsaid in the afternoon--and the end, for us, is always punishments and ruin and shame.

And though welcome routine readministered its anesthetic throughout the house, there remained between them the dull throb of the vast unsaid.

But look ye, Starbuck, what is said in heat, that thing unsays itself.