| 单词 | gainsay |
| 释义 | gain·say 1. < that capitalism had long existed in rudimentary form cannot be gainsaid — W.P.Webb > < a churlish critic who would gainsay people the solace of fairy tales — W.H.Whyte > 2. < though I disagree with him, I will not gainsay him > 3. < standing armies that will permit us to grasp whatever we may desire, because no other nation or combination of nations is strong enough to gainsay us — F.D.Roosevelt > < the development of a manner … that gainsays the very purpose of criticism — F.R.Leavis > also < his mother, whom he could not gainsay, was unconsciously but inflexibly set against his genius — Van Wyck Brooks > Synonyms: see deny |
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