gainsay
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Since June, it’s been harder to gainsay him.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
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
Dain, about to be crowned the High King, has the power to grant me a place in the Court, the power to gainsay Madoc and make me a knight.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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