gainsay

Example Sentences

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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

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

Doyle’s enthusiasm for the Mars One experience thus far, which she describes as “probably the best and strangest of my life”, is hard to gainsay.

From The Guardian • May 30, 2015

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

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell