Definition of "gainsays" [gainsays]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gainsay. (verb)

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• "No one gainsays the obvious historical fact that Muslim leaders both those of antiquity and of a more contemporary period have diced and sliced the hegemonic and harsh rulings of Shariah in an effort to exploit the institutional hold Shariah has over most Muslims while applying it in a rather subjective or exploitative fashion."
• "None of this gainsays that Lewis is not without vanity."
• "This sum alone gainsays those absurd conspiracy theorists who hold that US sought to occupy Iraq simply to gain control of the oil supplies."