dispute

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Refusing & rejecting
abjuration
abjure
abnegate
abnegation
bar
bat something/someone away
decline
disavow
oppositional
opt
opt out
pass on
pass something up
punt on something
rebel
refuse
sb wouldn't touch something/someone with a bargepole/barge poleidiom
tear
wash your hands of somethingidiom
would not do something for all the tea in Chinaidiom

Examples of gainsay

gainsay
The courts cannot gainsay the legislation and set it aside because they think that a better standard should be endorsed.
What gives that claim its credibility is the fact that it does not overlook or gainsay the routineness of the routine cases.
Nor is it meant to gainsay the real hardships imposed.
What cannot be gainsaid is that nature safeguards certain principles that must be respected no matter in which discipline they come to fruition.
Also, the importance of prospective judgements for both gender groups gainsays the longstanding claim that retrospective judgements are what matter for presidential approval.
There is no gainsaying that the civilian administration has been concerned with the rising spate of conflicts in the country.
The singular aptness of its title cannot be gainsaid, however.
One witness to a crime would not be sufficient to convict, for such testimony would simply be gainsaid by the defendant's denial of guilt.
Indeed, the importance of immigration for the contemporary pattern of party conflict in destination countries cannot be gainsaid.
Even more disconcertingly, the five reviews head off on different judgemental tangents, one set of recommendations appearing to gainsay the next.
To accomplish this, we can first classify the possible outside sources from which the conceptual system of physics may borrow elements that gainsay its self-sufficiency.
The black origins of the music stressed by the left-wing press of the day cannot be gainsaid.
Why, then, would we gainsay postal officials who invoked the same principles in restricting the number of routes in southern districts?
Furthermore, it is difficult to gainsay this inference on the grounds that the spatial scale of the analyses is incommensurate with that at which neighbourhood effects are believed to operate.
While it is clear that conflict management depends less on punitive measures against the dramatis personae, there is no gainsaying that proactive measures to contain conflicts are needed.
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