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
Dissenting voices such as Milan Kundera and Harold Bloom have argued that Nineteen Eighty-Four is actually a bad novel, with thin characters, humdrum prose and an implausible plot, but even they couldn’t gainsay its importance.
From The Guardian • May 19, 2019
Martin admitted he didn’t know the meanings of gainsay and ravening.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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