Definition of "daresay" []

• To think very likely or almost certain; suppose. Used in the first person singular present tense: Will they be late? Yes, I daresay. I daresay you're wrong. (verb-transitive)

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• "The greatest danger to our democracy, I daresay, is not that the communists will destroy it, but that we will betray it by the very means chosen to defend it."
• "a capital talent which, I daresay, is inherited by these remarkably "world-like" girls of yours."
• "You think them very fine, I daresay, that is because his lashes are as thick and dark as a woman's -- but the look in them, my dear -- do you know what it reminds me of?"