gainsay

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

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

There was an argument, of course, but Mal in these last few days had become difficult to gainsay.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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

She sees the worm that my youth's bloom decays, She sees my spring-time wasted as it flees; And, marvelling at the rigor that gainsays The heart's sweet impulse, my reward decrees.

From The Poems of Schiller — Second period by Friedrich Schiller

The King gainsays thy wedding couch, and dowry justly bought By very blood, and for his throne an outland heir is sought.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by William Morris

And whoso'er gainsays King Edward's right, By this I challenge him to single fight.

From King Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare

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

Just as there’s no denying the popular place in the repertoire of Peter Shaffer’s “Amadeus,” there’s no gainsaying the durable position in the canon of Dürrenmatt’s “The Visit.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

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 is no gainsaying that top of the agenda in South African sport now is that black lives matter.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 21, 2020

There was no gainsaying that—though the boy himself, at first, did not recognize it as wooing at all.

From The Road to Understanding by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter