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

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

Within the ANC, party members J. B. Marks, Edwin Mofutsanyana, Dan Tloome, and David Bopape, among others, were devoted and hardworking, and left nothing to gainsay as freedom fighters.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

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

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

Acting otherwise, as he may do, the free agent gainsays his own nature, taken as a whole, a thing that a necessary agent can nowise do.

From Moral Philosophy by Joseph Rickaby, S.J.

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

Yet the scale of Pizarro's triumph at Cajamarca cannot be gainsaid.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

“Whether one agrees with her opinions or not, there’s no gainsaying her prominent place in the history of American political thought,” he said.

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2018

"Beatrice, come in here instantly," called my aunt in a voice there was no gainsaying.

From Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune by Mrs. Oliver Onions