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What (who) is Gainsay - definition
gainsay
(gainsays, gainsaying, gainsaid)
If there is no gainsaying something, it is true or obvious and everyone would agree with it. (FORMAL)
There is no gainsaying the fact that they have been responsible for a truly great building.
= deny
VERB: with brd-neg, V n
Gainsay
gainsay
v. a.
Contradict, deny, controvert, dispute.
Examples of use of Gainsay
1. Yet if that is who the people elect to lead them, why should America gainsay the people‘s choice?
2. But there are plenty of whispers about how outrageously unconstitutional it is for a general to speak out and gainsay the politicians.
3. But Cameron argues the Tories can build on the Thatcher revolution only by holding the centre – lurching to the right means ‘irrelevance, defeat and failure‘. After three disastrous election defeats, it is difficult to gainsay his case.