gainsay
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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
But she framed her attack in a way no one could gainsay.
From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2016
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
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