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Gainsaid

It cannot be gainsaid /I cannot gainsay can it be used in place of I cannot deny

pls can you give me 2-3 usages of It cannot be gainsaid and I cannot gainsay

Will it be proper to write as ' I cannot gainsay/deny that your caring nature makes me feel as Iam a part of you 'and/but / at the same time/on the other hand' your hatredness hurts me.

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Gainsay = say (something) against. The word is quite formal-- much more so than 'deny'-- and is seldom met nowadays. Therefore: I cannot deny that your caring nature makes me feel I am a part of you but at the same time/on the other hand your hatefulness hurts me.

— Mister Micawber

  • Gainsay = say (something) against.
  • The word is quite formal-- much more so than 'deny'-- and is seldom met nowadays.
  • Therefore: I cannot deny that your caring nature makes me feel I am a part of you but at the same time/on the other hand your hatefulness hurts me.
  • - Postmodern critics of culture gainsay the cultural stability that anthropologists emphasize.
  • - the magazine spoke to American teenagers who gainsay the media-created stereotype of teen virgins as prudes.
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Gainsay = say (something) against. The word is quite formal-- much more so than 'deny'-- and is seldom met nowadays. Therefore:

I cannot deny that your caring nature makes me feel I am a part of you but at the same time/on the other hand your hatefulness hurts me.

- Postmodern critics of culture gainsay the cultural stabi
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