gainsay🔊

(formal) To say something in contradiction to.

📑 Synonyms: controvert deny dispute refute withsay

💬 Quotations

So she had, cried Scrooge. You’re right. I will not gainsay it, Spirit. God forbid!

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

But Emily's excuse could not be gainsayed—she had that morning received news of the death of Lady Alicia Delawarr.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality

A hide of land I give to thee in my steads of Walbrugham, from me and mine to thee and thine aye and for ever; and God’s malison on his head who this gainsays!

Walter Scott, Ivanhoe