gainsay
Example Sentences
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As an Episcopal priest, I’d be the last person to gainsay the importance of prayer.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2022
He’s only bringing it up to gainsay it: The best revenge, he argues, is revenge.
From Slate • Feb. 26, 2020
Yet far be it from me to gainsay the delight that many viewers take in “The Princess Bride.”
From The New Yorker • Sep. 20, 2019
He’s not sure he has “the emotional fuel” for another presidential run, and no one can gainsay that for a father who has lost a son.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 2, 2015
Within the ANC, party members J. B. Marks, Edwin Mofutsanyana, Dan Tloome, and David Bopape, among others, were devoted and hardworking, and left nothing to gainsay as freedom fighters.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
