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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gainsay.

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Examples

  • No one gainsays the obvious historical fact that Muslim leaders both those of antiquity and of a more contemporary period have diced and sliced the hegemonic and harsh rulings of Shariah in an effort to exploit the institutional hold Shariah has over most Muslims while applying it in a rather subjective or exploitative fashion.

    Moderate Muslims Must Confront Institutional Shariah 2010

  • The completion of the A380 also gainsays the pervasive doom-mongering about the European Union.

    Detached from reality Richard 2006

  • None of this gainsays that Lewis is not without vanity.

    A Long Leap Of Faith 2008

  • This sum alone gainsays those absurd conspiracy theorists who hold that US sought to occupy Iraq simply to gain control of the oil supplies.

    Nobody listened to us Richard 2006

  • The letter stated her dates of service, dates nobody gainsays.

    The Federal Courts Bow Down, Abjectly, To The Secrecy Demands Of The National Security State 2007

  • This is really cut-and-paste journalism, but it conveys a degree of naivety which gainsays any idea of hacks being hard-bitten and cynical.

    Playing the "Europe" card Richard 2007

  • This is really cut-and-paste journalism, but it conveys a degree of naivety which gainsays any idea of hacks being hard-bitten and cynical.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Richard 2007

  • For the catastrophists, the flood that they believe filled the tar pits with carcasses in one day gainsays the theory of evolution, which they call gradualism.

    I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006

  • For the catastrophists, the flood that they believe filled the tar pits with carcasses in one day gainsays the theory of evolution, which they call gradualism.

    I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006

  • In fact the whole paragraph on pp 28-29 rings with a certainty that gainsays the tentative apologetics surrounding the word “likely.”

    M&M at the NAS Panel « Climate Audit 2006

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