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Перевод: gainsay

[существительное]
противоречие;
[глагол]
отрицать; противоречить

Тезаурус:

1. Gainsay is owned by pop star Errol Brown.
2. Now while it may be difficult to gainsay the claim that these are the things on which it would be most worth spending time if there was ever no further need to struggle for the basics of human survival and comfort, life seems to be trivialised if culture and personal relations are held up as the be all and end all of what really matters.
3. "Long live the High and Mighty Sovereigns, Don Fernando and Doa Juana, Kings of Castile and of Leon and of Aragon, et cetera, in whose names and for the royal crown of Castile I take and assume royal possession corporal and present of these austral seas and lands and coasts and islands with everything annexed to them or which might pertain to them in whatever manner or by whatever reason or title might or could exist, ancient or modem, in times past, present or to come, without gainsay whatsoever.
4. Mr Smith's survival techniques are sound and I cannot imagine that any accountant would gainsay them.
5. None could gainsay her.
6. In the last days of the campaign Churchill returned to the attack, pointing out the danger to the parliamentary leadership of the Labour Party posed by the National Executive; but Attlee replied patiently, explaining the constitutional position of himself and his colleagues as he saw it; naturally his supporters - with the exception of Laski himself - did not gainsay his arguments, and on the whole the electorate took little interest in the discussion.
7. Few strategists would gainsay the primacy of the First Pillar - the defence of the British Isles - upon which the sovereignty of the realm depends; though, paradoxically, the United Kingdom has usually been so secure behind its sea walls that Home Defence has been accorded the lowest allocation of resources.
8. "There is no one with the power to gainsay him."
9. Have you any evidence to gainsay that?
10. Mistress Philippa, your father was a bastard and no one here will gainsay me."
11. The force of such ideas and practices lay partly in their "progressive" origins, which few teachers would be prepared to gainsay; and partly in the authority of those who devised and presented them, whom few would dare to contradict.
12. "She cannot gainsay you."
13. This does not gainsay the fundamental proposition that it is every citizen's duty to retain self-control - at least to the extent of not violating other people's interests - but it does open the way to a manslaughter verdict and to sentences which are rarely longer than eight years' imprisonment (less than half as long as the time served by many convicted of murder) and may be considerably shorter.