0 to refuse to accept something as the truth:
Certainly there's no gainsaying (= it is not possible to doubt) the technical brilliance of his performance.
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.
