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

Yet far be it from me to gainsay the delight that many viewers take in “The Princess Bride.”

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 20, 2019

Dain, about to be crowned the High King, has the power to grant me a place in the Court, the power to gainsay Madoc and make me a knight.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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 crieth still; gainsays no words   Contempt can hurt withal; The daughter's woe her strength affords,   And woe nor strength is small.

From A Hidden Life and Other Poems by George MacDonald

When self-esteem, or others' adulation, Would cunningly persuade us we are something Above the common level of our kind, The Grave gainsays the smooth-complexion'd flattery, And with blunt truth acquaints us what we are.

From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan

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

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 can be no gainsaying that Boeing has been in a bad way at least since 2018, the last year in which the company booked an annual profit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 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

As a likeness it is perfect, there is no gainsaying.

From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III by M. Y. Halidom (pseud. Dryasdust)