How To Use Gainsay In A Sentence
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I'm not denying or gainsaying the fact that one could make a case.
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The result is a leader who believes his own publicity because no one dares to gainsay it.
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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
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Others, though, have leapt to his defence, claiming the gainsayers just don't get it.
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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.
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In an era in which the very power of national governments of reformist pedigree to deliver reforms is under question, Labour gainsays the question.
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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
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Now I dance to my own piper and if I want to sleep in I have no master to gainsay me.
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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.
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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
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Did you know that MLK used the word gainsaid actually "gainsaying" in his Letter From a Birmingham Jail?
Racism over, black people say.
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From early in her life Kamla is surprised by a contrary inner voice which frequently gainsays the received wisdom of her elders and betters.
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Few could gainsay that such growth poses an unprecedented challenge to mankind.
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Negotiating these complexities, however, would be a monumental challenge for a 27-year-old CEO who seems most intent on making sure no one can gainsay him.
Rich, Rich Facebook
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a proof of my assertion, which I do not think any of them will gainsay, which is, that they all laid down as a principle what they did not perfectly know.
The Selections from the Principles of Philosophy
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And Mr. Mather dispersed Mr. Baxter's book in New England, with the character of it, as a book that was ungainsayable.
Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply
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They replied, “Do us no damage, for we accept thee as Sultan over us and will not anywise gainsay thy bidding.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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We may not gainsay the outcome but we can say that if the Commission rules against Deputy Collins the party leadership will have little room for manoeuvre.
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We do not gainsay any of that, your Honour, and, indeed, the complaint against us is not in connection with the certification process, of course.
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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.
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So whoever is Home Secretary can define the points at which the IRA is a threat, or a partner in talks or any point in between, and neither we nor the legal system can gainsay him.
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Whatever problems one might have with military tribunals, is it really possible to gainsay the White House response on this one?
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I don't gainsay as her culler was a bit doosky like.
Indian Tales
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Then did I say a few things to all and sundry -- stinging, biting things, ungainsayable and forcible things -- and took possession of all the fish that were left, so the Indians slunk off in sullen silence.
The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
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No-one can possibly gainsay the need to travel on the railway in safety and it will be difficult to advance an argument against these giants.
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In theory, at least, inferior material, but who can gainsay the wine's elegance?
Will this be English wine's best ever year?
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Then make him take the wheat, sift, grind, bolt, knead, and bake it into cracknels; and if any gainsay thee, beat him and fear none.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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We may have found this condemned army bacon further out on the plains than the section I am locating it in, but we _found_ it -- there is no gainsaying that.
Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year
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In Round No. 1 -- in which participants misspelled the words buran, shaman, peruse, suture, buffoon, gainsay, copious and marshal -- David Burnett from Melrose Elementary School was reinstated for using an alternate spelling of the word marshal.
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Say what you will about that view, it's hard to gainsay the economic gains that Singapore, Malaysia and China all made over the last 30-odd years.
Beijing and the Arab Revolt
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My friend, Labour party member, and ungainsayable leftist recommends his ‘friend and favourite vicar-in-training’ in the Guardian.
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So, claim above-average looks yourself, and who is to gainsay you?
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None of this is to gainsay the interests of the world economy in the region.
Is U.S. Democracy Just Talk?
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“Command me as thou wilt: I will not gainsay thee in aught; no, never, for I am the freedman of thy bounty.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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One hesitates to gainsay those who are putting their money where we journalists are only willing to put our mouths.
Nothing New Under the Son
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In your place, I should not gainsay the truth, but I'd put it in a different and more telling way.…
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Indeed, I have offended and done evil; but I crave pardon of Allah Almighty for whatso I did, and if He reunite us, I will never again gainsay thee in aught, no, never! —
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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His Fate, for creatures works and none His hest gainsays,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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But, if you think that, in these matters, you have done your duty, and taught the people theirs; and that the doctrines cited from the above mentioned book [_Baxter's_] are ungainsayable; I shall conclude in almost his words.
Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply
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Most of the points that it makes seem to me ungainsayable, but clearly that is not how they strike everyone.
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Everyone who believes it is legit will find some way to gainsay the believers.
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Quoth the boy, “Swear to me an oath that thou wilt not gainsay me in whatso I shall say to thee and that I from that which I fear shall be safe,” and quoth the King,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Pundits argue still, but no one gainsays that such involvement and determination created something more than a gestural pastiche.
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Larkin used once in a letter to his mother - over books and music, and those moments of ungainsayable and perhaps unsayable emotion he risks more and more frequently in his later poems, after the self-deflating asperities of the earlier work that made his name.
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The choice of the venue at that precise time was calculated to do the maximum damage to the prime minister and to highlight his lofty disdain for anyone who gainsays him.
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Twenty-five years on, who can gainsay their prophetic analysis?
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Beyond gainsay it is a genuine Rembrandt.
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Far be it from me to gainsay thee in aught, for I am indebted to thee for many favours and bounties and much kindness, and (praised be Allah!)
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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No one could gainsay that they had good reason, but I really feared for a time that we should have "ructions," As Paddy said, it was not wise or dignified for those officers to be so angry with him on account of his success, which he frankly owned was due almost entirely to the local knowledge he possessed, gained in many years 'study of the immediate neighbourhood.
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
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For the catastrophists, the flood that they believe filled the tar pits with carcasses in one day gainsays the theory of evolution, which they call gradualism.
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen
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But, alas! in the very rush, and storm, and tempest of the unfinishing business, an unlooked-for interruption arose in the person of a great Senator whose power none could oppose, whose right to free and extended utterance at all times none could gainsay.
The Story of a Mine
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Seeing that there was indeed room, she began to settle in before anyone could gainsay her.
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There is no gainsaying that the Solomons are a hard-bitten bunch of islands.
THE TERRIBLE SOLOMONS
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And when Father had done investigating into his background found out he was the only son of an earl, and given his tacit approval of the match, how could she gainsay him?
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Now, I don't gainsay the need to start the transition process.
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During the immolation of Dunster the Rev.Mr. Mitchell had made up his mind that he "would have an argument able to remove a mountain" before he would swerve from his orthodoxy; he had since confirmed his faith by preaching "more than half a score ungainsayable sermons" "in defence of this comfortable truth," and he was now prepared to maintain it against all comers.
The Emancipation of Massachusetts
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These revisionists could not of course ultimately gainsay the fact that France was defeated.
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The general run of London restaurants may be gastronomically indifferent, decoratively indistinguishable, staffed by sneering tyros and apprentice boors but there's no gainsaying the energy and optimistic bounce of the PR trade.
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It is an about-face that gainsays the ground of his achievement.
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I got most of the way through, sleepily agreeing, until I was pulled up by such an ungainsayable falsehood that I was forced to go back and revise my opinion of the rest.
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Far be it for us to gainsay the glories of the Italian kitchen.
Pappardelle Protectionism
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Admitting the Mubarak regime's contributions to America's interests in the region doesn't gainsay the reality that keeping aging autocracies in power, with no feasible successor in sight, is a status quo that isn't sustainable.
Egypt's Choice
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None of this is to gainsay the genuine hardships that many of the uninsured face, but we prefer the approach Mr. Obama ran on in the 2008 primaries against Hillary Clinton.
Texas and Health Care
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Anything outside those actions is proof one has entered the Iron Bubble, and automatically gainsays the statements of the other side simply because the other side made them.
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For gainsaying; the word in the Greek is anteipein, importing opposition in disputation, with an endeavour to refel or confute what is alleged by another; and the design of it is redargution, called by
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
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Legitimate children were subject to the commands of their father, with the mother having no legal right to gainsay him.
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As Thomas Mallon wrote in a 2006 story in The New Yorker, the book acts as "an ungainsayable endorser of the obvious.
What 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Isn't
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Much as she had suffered in her early religious life from predestinarianism, she never was a bigot, and so she, like Paul, "gathered assuredly" that the call was of the Lord, and "without gainsaying" went and helped them publicly and from house to house as best she could.
Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er
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And then there's the ungainsayable observation (once it's explained) ‘that a bus full of rancorous, quarrelsome, and aggressive passengers is bound sooner or later to have a collision’.
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And if holy Church hath the words of God, and is alonely guided of His Spirit, then must it be an awful and deadly sin to gainsay her bidding.
In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers
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No one truthfully gainsays the importance of professionalism to modern technological progress.
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But men _could_ not and _ought_ not to believe such an assertion unless the claim were supported by ungainsayable evidence.
When the Holy Ghost is Come
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Anybody gainsaying General Relativity had best demonstrate an unambiguous reproducible falsification.
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My warnings over the last six years had been so numerous, so detailed, and were now so terribly vindicated, that no one could gainsay me.
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I give to thee in my steads of Walbrugham, from me and mine to thee and thine aye and for ever; and God's malison on his head who this gainsays! ''
Ivanhoe
