How to Use gainsay in a Sentence

gainsay

verb

• The courage and cleverness in staying in power for so long cannot be gainsaid.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2019
• Some of the yo-yoing on display has been the product of mindless, gainsaying partisanship.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 16 Apr. 2020
• Her role in passing the Affordable Care Act was absolutely heroic and should not be gainsaid.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 18 July 2019
• And if the judges are ever to gainsay the popular will with just cause, their institutional independence is the bulwark of their authority to do so.
  — Matthew J. Franck, National Review, 12 Sep. 2021
• Tales of blood pacts over steaming entrails, after all, make for exciting reading, especially when no one can gainsay them.
  — James Romm, WSJ, 7 July 2017
• Yet a fluent, pacy new translation by Michael Hofmann gainsays that assumption, opening up the book for English-speakers.
  — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
• In any case, the legal uncertainty doesn’t gainsay Judge Snow’s charge that Mr. Arpaio lied to him and judicially appointed monitors.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2017
• Yet what’s most original in the film is Mercier’s scathing and self-scourging performance (and there’s no gainsaying the importance of Yoav’s outfit, a collarless saffron-yellow coat).
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2019

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