Sentence examples for To gainsay from inspiring English sources

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To gainsay

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To contradict; to withsay; to deny, refute; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.

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To gainsay that is to ignore what made this city the vibrant metropolis of today.

Hard to gainsay that thought.

The central bank is not independent enough to gainsay him.

But that is not to gainsay its validity and power.

There is no public evidence to gainsay that claim.

Almost nobody dares to gainsay him, even when he goes over the top.

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But you cannot gainsay the fun to be had.

But there seems to be no gainsaying his at least passive solidarity with the Resistance, which swept up the two most important women in his life — Amélie, who was a typist for the Communist underground, and Marguerite, who served as a courier — as well as his son Jean, who was involved in sabotage operations.

But you are not in a position to deny the child his vision or gainsay his personal experience.

Nor did anyone gainsay a Sholom Aleichem aphorism that Mr. Kaufman recalled, to the effect that "no matter how bad things get, you've got to go on living, even if it kills you".

The above objections in no way gainsay the problems that some of the ordinances aim to tackle (e.g., the problem of homelessness).

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