Gainsaid
Definition of gainsaid:
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part of speech: participle
Contradicted.
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Usage examples for Gainsaid:
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Outside, not even to be gainsaid by Sixth Avenue, the night was like a moist flower held to the face.
"Gaslight Sonatas" – Fannie Hurst -
That he was an extraordinary man cannot be gainsaid and the plan, so far in advance of his age, which he conceived and carried through to success, forms one of the most interesting experiments in colonization ever attempted anywhere.
"American Men of Action" – Burton E. Stevenson -
The disappointment was doubly keen, coming as it did in the wake of hope that had refused to be gainsaid
"El Dorado" – Baroness Orczy -
It cannot be gainsaid that the legal history of the Workmen's Compensation Act is not a thing for lawyers to boast about.
"The Law and the Poor" – Edward Abbott Parry