deny
verb (used with object)
to state that (something declared or believed to be true) is not true.
am denying
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present progressiveof deny (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“I do think they have met their burden, and the jury should decide. I am denying the motion without prejudice,” the judge said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2024
"I am denying the application. I’m remanding him. He is going to have a little taste of what it's like to be charged and hanging out with the wrong people."
From Fox News ● Feb. 17, 2022
“But I am denying that we notice it to give us that leverage.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 9, 2019
“At this time I am denying your request for additional resources,” the Portland Police Bureau’s deputy chief, Robert Day, wrote to federal officers pleading for help.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2018
What I am denying is that Americans have any greater reverence for women, any higher chivalrousness, than Englishmen.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson
