(v. t.) To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.
(v. t.) To refuse (to do something or to accept something); to reject; to decline; to renounce.
(v. t.) To refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to; as, to deny a request.
(v. t.) To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, and the like; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
(v. i.) To answer in /// negative; to declare an assertion not to be true.
Example Sentences:
(1) He still denied it and said he was giving the girl a lift.
(2) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
(3) It was with unanimous consent.” He denied that Trump’s tweets had played a part, saying: “No, no, no.
(4) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
(5) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(6) Greek officials categorically denied the report with many describing it as a "joke".
(7) In practice they are so elastic that they have been used to deny pasta to besieged Gazans.
(8) It felt like my very existence was being denied,” said Hahn Chae-yoon, executive director of Beyond the Rainbow Foundation.
(9) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
(10) Crushing their dream of denying healthcare to millions of people will put them on that road to despair.
(11) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
(12) However ITV deny that any approach or offer, formal or informal, has been made.
(13) To organise society as an individualistic war of one against another was barbaric, while the other models, slavishly following the rules of one religion or one supreme leader, denied freedom.
(14) He denied that the probation service budget, which has been protected so far from 23% cuts, would be a particular target, but said it was not yet making the same level of savings as was being required of the police.
(15) Nepalese workers building stadiums for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have been denied leave to attend funerals or visit relatives following the earthquakes in the Himalayan country that have killed more than 8,000 people, its government has revealed.
(16) Authorities in most cities – from Chita in Siberia to Makhachkala in Dagestan – denied permission for the rallies.
(17) Planned Parenthood denies the accusations, saying it donates fetal tissue to medical research companies at no cost.
(18) However, a spokesperson for the Department for Communities and Local Government denied any reports of a rift with the Treasury.
(19) There were numerous reports of looting and tampering with evidence, although rebel authorities angrily denied them.
(20) It could bring down the prime minister, though he denies it.
Disallow
Definition:
(v. t.) To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.
Example Sentences:
(1) I can’t believe it was disallowed,” Bale admitted.
(2) The Liverpool manager was incensed by Lee Mason's performance at the Etihad Stadium on Boxing Day, when a 2-1 defeat cost his team the Premier League leadership and Raheem Sterling had a first half goal disallowed for an incorrect offside call.
(3) It left Monk rueing Shelvey’s disallowed strike, while also questioning why Oliver did not send off Koné, rather than book the forward, for an aerial challenge on Federico Fernández in the first half.
(4) The national football team were on the verge of a 1974 World Cup place and controversially finished second to Haiti, after losing 2-1 despite scoring five goals – four of which were disallowed – against the hosts in a qualifying tournament staged by the Haitians.
(5) It's a good job too, as it would have been a travesty if that goal had been disallowed.
(6) Labor and the Greens used their combined majority in the upper house to pass a disallowance motion against the government’s “cruel” TPV regulations.
(7) "As frustrating as these disallowed goals have been for a true US football fan, the call in the Slovenia game has been all the talk in the US, where it's well known the public couldn't care less about football," reports Chris Roberts.
(8) It is also hypothesized that heat treatment may produce alterations in Ia molecules which specifically disallow transduction of the proliferation signal to T cells.
(9) Two minutes later Duncan Watmore had a goal disallowed, even though Nathan Aké appeared to have played him onside, and two minutes after that N’Doye was denied a fine chance by Prödl’s last-ditch challenge.
(10) Or, indeed, the storm of locusts that would have been sent Howard Webb’s way bearing in mind the disallowed Hulk goal and his waving away of a first-half penalty.
(11) When Haghighi dropped one five minutes later he had been fouled by Obi Mikel and Ahmed Musa’s “goal” was disallowed.
(12) Prescribers disallowed generics on 32% of all eligible prescription orders in 1979 and on 42% in 1987.
(13) "Can you explain to the Whining Yanks that they didn't have a goal disallowed in the match against Slovenia, since the referee clearly blew for what he perceived to be a foul before the ball had reached Edu and ended up in the back of the net," lectures Matt.
(14) The clerk said the Senate had passed a motion in 1931 urging the governor general to refuse to approve regulations in the current session that were the same in substance as regulations already disallowed by the Senate, and a motion in 1914 asking the governor general to submit six constitution alteration proposals to the people even though they had not been passed by the House of Representatives.
(15) The Court upheld Pennsylvania's law defining medical emergency, as construed by the Court of Appeals; allowed a 24-hour waiting period for women who must 1st hear information about pregnancy and abortion to insure thoughtful informed consent; allowed a parental consent provision, with a judicial bypass; and allowed a recordkeeping and reporting requirement; but disallowed a spousal notification requirement, noting that "[a] State may not give to a man the kind of dominion over his wife that parents exercise over their children."
(16) The European side had two goals disallowed and wound up losing on penalties.
(17) In September, the high court disallowed the government’s attempt to force all asylum seekers on to temporary protection.
(18) "They can argue about the decision, but it was never a goal and therefore cannot have been disallowed."
(19) And after a quick chat, Webb disallows the goal and books Hulk for handball.
(20) Four factors influencing the scores are isolated: the position of the primary stress, the awareness of rhythmic patterns, a tendency to assign prominence to the initial syllable and a segmental factor which disallows prominence on syllables with schwa.