negative
adjective
expressing or containing negation or denial.
have negatived
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present perfectof negative.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The researches of Cuvier and others have negatived the theory of Lamarcke as to the transmutation of species.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various
They could then, through the medium of a mock President, have negatived all bills which their party in Congress could not have opposed with success, and reduced representation to a nullity.
From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Thomas Paine
The courts have negatived such laws on much the same grounds, so that anti-tipping laws thus far have been, generally, short-lived.
From The Itching Palm A Study of the Habit of Tipping in America by William R Scott
On the score of impropriety and improbability it might in the old days have appealed to the Criterion management; but its lack of broad humour must have negatived these advantages.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 10, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman
There is every reason to suppose that even in 1829 a plébiscite, had one been possible, would have negatived the Catholic Relief Bill.
From England's Case Against Home Rule by Albert Venn Dicey
