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

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

Why anyone would gainsay efforts as generous as Bilbao and, judging from photographs, the Vuitton museum, or would ambush, with a nasty question, the man who made them beggars comprehension.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 27, 2014

Martin admitted he didn’t know the meanings of gainsay and ravening.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead