gainsay

How To Use gainsay In A Sentence

• I'm not denying or gainsaying the fact that one could make a case.
• The result is a leader who believes his own publicity because no one dares to gainsay it. Times, Sunday Times
• Occurring in its most marked form, there is no gainsaying the fact that pumiced-foot is a sequel of either acute or subacute laminitis. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
• Others, though, have leapt to his defence, claiming the gainsayers just don't get it.
• He had a hot temper and a weekly column in which he could publicly tear to shreds anyone who dared gainsay him or meddle with his works.
• In an era in which the very power of national governments of reformist pedigree to deliver reforms is under question, Labour gainsays the question.
• Shaykh said to him, ‘O Janshah, take the keys of the castle and solace thyself with exploring all its apartments and viewing whatever be therein, but as regards such a room, beware and again beware of opening its door; and if thou gainsay me and open it and enter there, through nevermore shalt thou know fair fortune.’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Now I dance to my own piper and if I want to sleep in I have no master to gainsay me.
• But if it ends up being closer to the 200th year, I would not be around in any case, and I will not be able to have anyone gainsay me.
• As Thomas Mallon wrote in a 2006 story in The New Yorker, the book acts as “an ungainsayable endorser of the obvious.” Killing the Mockingbird