gainsay

As an Episcopal priest, I’d be the last person to gainsay the importance of prayer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2022

Although the movie doesn’t really position Jackson as a has-been, it also doesn’t forcefully gainsay the notion that the best thing he can do for Ally is get out of her way.

From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2018

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

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

Yet a fluent, pacy new translation by Michael Hofmann gainsays that assumption, opening up the book for English-speakers.

From Economist ● Mar. 8, 2018

Neither Mr. Khan nor Ms. Mac Donald gainsays the historical connection between conservatism and religiosity.

From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2011

When self-esteem, or others' adulation, Would cunningly persuade us we are something Above the common level of our kind, The Grave gainsays the smooth-complexion'd flattery, And with blunt truth acquaints us what we are.

From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan

That she was blind In her religious ethics, none deny; That she had faults, no champion gainsays; She lifted bloody hands against the sky; She filled the avenging measure of her days.

From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Hiram Hoyt Richmond

Happiest, merriest ways, Knowing no gainsays, so the story says, Since the Great Râm loved and blessed you, With his care-worn hand caressed you, In the olden days.

From The Adventures of Akbar by Byam Shaw

In-house experts are gainsaid by leadership or even made entirely irrelevant as their duties are passed off to the commercial sector.

From Slate ● May 6, 2020

None has suggested, however, that a president’s voluntary decision to provide materials to Congress can be gainsaid, either by subordinate executive-branch officials or the courts.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2018

Getting hit by a foul ball or a broken bat is a known risk of attending baseball games, and the potential for major injuries cannot be gainsaid.

From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2015

My evaluation process would be a lot simpler and less anxiety-ridden if I knew I would never be gainsaid by any student.

From Salon ● May 25, 2013

When others spoke they seemed harsh and uncouth by contrast; and if they gainsaid the voice, anger was kindled in the hearts of those under the spell.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

And as for amateurs gainsaying the work of the Centro Stile design department, I think that’s adorable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

There can be no gainsaying Milei’s economic achievements since he took office in December 2023.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025

There can be no gainsaying that Boeing has been in a bad way at least since 2018, the last year in which the company booked an annual profit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025

“Whether one agrees with her opinions or not, there’s no gainsaying her prominent place in the history of American political thought,” he said.

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2018

Blanche, love," interposed the Lady Maria, "you have scarce given a good reason for gainsaying the wish of the damsels.

From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy