Gainsay means: To say something in contradiction to. Related words include challenge or dispute. Below you'll find 5 example sentences showing how to use Gainsay in practice.

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Gainsay meaning

To say something in contradiction to.

Synonyms of Gainsay

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Example sentences (5)

I have never denied that violence is inevitable, nor do I gainsay it now.

It will be hard to gainsay her.

Rather than gainsay the legendary baseball sage Yogi Berra—who that it’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future—let’s stipulate some principles to shape the inquiry shaping the SSN(X).

So you can boast about the Greatest Economy Ever if you are the Donald and reassure about a “solid” economy if you are stock-options rich Davos Man, but that doesn’t gainsay the unsustainable economic and monetary rot upon which it is all based.

The argument that it might have taken more years than we had hoped does not gainsay the fact that a considerable amount of light has begun to find its way into the room as far as the development of Guyana’s agro-processing industry is concerned.

Common combinations with gainsay

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

  • gainsay the

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How do you use "gainsay" in a sentence?
An example: "I have never denied that violence is inevitable, nor do I gainsay it now." This page contains 5 example sentences with the word "gainsay" from real English texts.
What does "gainsay" mean?
Gainsay means: To say something in contradiction to.
What are synonyms of "gainsay"?
Common synonyms of "gainsay" include: challenge, dispute, contest, contend, repugn.
How many example sentences with "gainsay" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 5 example sentences with "gainsay", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.

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