gainsay
verb (used with object)
to deny, dispute, or contradict.
gainsays
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present tense formof gainsay (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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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
This town of Mansoul therefore is my Father's, and that by the best of titles; and he that gainsays the truth of this must lie against his soul.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan
When self-esteem, or others' adulation, Would cunningly persuade us we are something Above the common level of our kind, The Grave gainsays the smooth-complexion'd flattery, And with blunt truth acquaints us what we are.
From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan
But the reviewer gainsays all this, and even does more.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 383, August 1, 1829 by Various
