gainsaying

• Gerry (2002): Van Sant's artiest, gayest, gainsaying-est movie turned male friendship into a Death Valley walkabout with intimations of lust, murder, personality-theft and exasperating ambiguity. —  New York Press
• Betty Martin," while the Doctor went on The earth, I say, may exist, although Bishop Berkeley has proved beyond all possible gainsaying or denial, that it does not exist. —  The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
• But there is no gainsaying, on the other hand, that they have lost the fruits that are plucked by the nations of more individualistic training They have clean streets, cheap music and drama, and a veritable mesh of national education with interstices so small that no one can escape, and they are coddled in every direction; but they have no stuff for colonizers, and they have been not infrequently wofully lacking in stalwart statesmen, and leaders To deprive the worker of his choice of expenditure, by taking all but a pittance of it in taxation, is a dangerous deprivation of moral exercise. —  Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View
• I says No gainsaying,' repeats he; 'it's a common word in literatoor Maybe,' says I, 'but this happens to be "The Blue Posts Coffee House," established in the year 1863. —  The Observations of Henry
• "I'll answer him myself He was gone before she could say anything further, moving without haste but with a decision there was no gainsaying, and Maud heaved a sigh and relaxed against her pillows. —  Charles Rex

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