gainsaid

• While Salmond's formidable achievement in giving Scotland a government it can respect should not be gainsaid, the case for Scottish independence put by the nationalists will have to change dramatically, and become much more ambitious and radical. —  open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
• But not to be gainsaid, the Jamaican duo of Travis Smikle and Chad Wright overtook Collingwood in the second round. —  IAAF.org - News
• This calumny Mungongo strenuously gainsaid, and anew recounted the marvellous feats of magic of Moonspirit who could, he assured his compatriots, eat up Eyes-in-the-hands as easily as a crocodile would swallow a goat. —  Witch-Doctors
• But she would not be gainsaid, and he yielded, apparently well content under her hands. —  Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories
• Yet time's figures are not to be gainsaid, and especially in the Land of Liberty people are not allowed to forget that they are growing old even if they have no tall sons and daughters to attest the fact. —  The Opinions of a Philosopher

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