What does the word gainsay mean?
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To contradict; controvert.
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Galnsayer.
Part of speech: verb transitive
Part of speech: noun
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Usage examples for gainsay
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This is what I fancy myself to be doing now, and if any one shall say that my little pictures are superficial, I shall not be able to gainsay him. – London Films by W.D. Howells
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It was Kate's way and no one might gainsay her. – Marcia Schuyler by Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
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It was impossible to gainsay the fact that if there was a prospective engagement, Mrs. Lunn had shown her usual discretion. – The Life of Nancy by Sarah Orne Jewett