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Another word for gainsay

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Verb

  1. To refuse to admit the truth, reality, value, or worth of

    See also:

    affirm

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Another word for gainsay

Verb

  1. To deny

    See also:

    deny

  2. To contradict

    See also:

    deny

    oppose

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Sentence Examples

  • gainsay these people.

  • gainsay the need for workers in the Missionary Enterprise.

  • Yet must he not gainsay the gods ' behest.

  • No truthful man, however much he may love the bird, will gainsay the depredations on fruit and eggs that it at times commits; but the gardeners and gamekeepers of Britain, instead of taking a few simple steps to guard their charge from injury, deliberately adopt methods of wholesale destruction - methods that in the case of this species are only too easy and too effectual--by proffering temptation to trespass which it is not in jay-nature to resist, and accordingly the bird runs great chance of total extirpation.

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