gainsaid in English

verb
1
deny or contradict (a fact or statement).
the impact of the railroads cannot be gainsaid
synonyms:denydisputedisagree withargue withdissent fromcontradictrepudiatechallengeopposecontestcountercontrovertrebut
verb

Use "gainsaid" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "gainsaid" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "gainsaid", or refer to the context using the word "gainsaid" in the English Dictionary.

1. Sceptics and prejudiced or interested witnesses in general may scoff as they like , the fact cannot be gainsaid . Our friendsand we have some who regard us neither as lunatics nor imposterswill at least be glad to read the statement which follows ; . . . We are no . more at liberty to repeat here all the questions put to us by the interviewers than we are to divulge certain other facts which would still more strongly corroborate our repeated assertions ( hat ( 1 ) Our Society was founded at the direct suggestion of Indian and Tibetan Adepts ; and ( 2 ) that in coming to this country we but obeyed their wishes .