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

Doyle’s enthusiasm for the Mars One experience thus far, which she describes as “probably the best and strangest of my life”, is hard to gainsay.

From The Guardian • May 30, 2015

This time they came from the Bible, through which she made desultory progress: gainsay, ravening, hoar.

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