backpedal
IPA: bˈækpɛdʌɫ
verb
- (intransitive) To pedal backwards on a bicycle.
- (intransitive) To step backwards.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement; back off from an idea.
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Examples of "backpedal" in Sentences
- Now you are trying to backpedal.
- Now you change your song and backpedal.
- Backpedal now if you will to November 2002.
- Interesting little backpedal you're doing there.
- Intel had to backpedal and side with AMD on the point.
- I'm not backpedaling because I don't need to backpedal.
- When in freewheel mode the Freecoaster had no backpedal.
- Now Xed is trying to actively backpedal from his original position.
- Then he backpedals and starts using the third person to continue his tirades.
- It’s a backpedal from the claim I was addressing, as well as from Matthew’s claim.
- As I smiled at him, I started to walk backward, then to backpedal faster, still holding his gaze.
- Obama can "backpedal" and "Walkback" all he wants but it is too late, Obama is nothing short of satanic.
- Has marginal timed speed, his backpedal is stiff and high and he often gets turned around by the slot receivers and tight ends working the short area ...
- They picked the number out of their ass, knowing they'd need to 'backpedal' later … but 'later' is too late for the suckers who plunked their cash down, isn't it?]
- For those interested in tracking the changing Conservative commitment, check the Bond Papers archives for posts with the word "backpedal" or variations in the title.
- The hospitals — which were the first to backpedal from the initial industry agreement to lower health care spending by 1.5 percentage points over 10 years — objected.
- He can lie all he wants to and try to "backpedal" all he wants, but it is too late, he cannot undo what he has done; he has once and for all, pulled down his pants in front of the entire country, squatted on the hallowed 9/11/01 Ground Zero site and taken a huge PUBLIC DUMP UPON
- NANCY PFOTENHAUER, MCCAIN CAMPAIGN POLICY ADVISER: Senator Obama continuing to dance and, if you will, kind of backpedal on his positions, that he's revealing himself to not be any type of new politician or a new agent of change, but really way too much like the typical politician.
- If they then backpedal with the "oh, we're about to file it" then you can simply reply, "Well, when I am served with the copy of the complaint, then you can discuss the case with my attorney, but I have nothing more to say until I have reviewed the court complaint with my attorney."