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

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

This time they came from the Bible, through which she made desultory progress: gainsay, ravening, hoar.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead