gainsay

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Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lang Lang on music education Lang Lang’s features cloud momentarily when he considers the gainsayers.

From The Guardian • Mar. 7, 2016

His transparent singleness of purpose, his freedom from all by-ends, his plain good sense, courage, adherence, and his romantic generosity disarmed first or last all gainsayers.

From Cambridge Sketches by Stearns, Frank Preston

That lawyers are as often the ministers of injustice as of justice is the common accusation in the mouth of gainsayers against the profession.

From An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition by Sharswood, George

I have once before noticed Mr. Roebuck's stock argument for proving the greatness and happiness of England as she is, and for quite stopping the mouths of all gainsayers.

From Culture and Anarchy by Arnold, Matthew

His tendencies, or, say, rather velleities—for they proved to be hardly more—were excellent, but he contrived no mechanism by which to convert them into institutions, and when pressed by gainsayers abandoned them.

From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph