(v. t.) To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.
Example Sentences:
(1) It responded to all who predicted the chaos now engulfing us like an unscrupulous pundit who knows that his living depends on shutting up the experts who gainsay him.
(2) Azerbaijan As yet a non-aligned Eurovision nation Who would gainsay the chances of the plucky Azeris, who have only been in Eurovision for two years and so are relative innocents in this grubby pseudo-musical farce?
(3) It was impossible to gainsay David Moyes, when he insisted: "It wasn't even a free-kick."
(4) For Israel, he was the unregenerate terrorist; and Washington would not gainsay its protege.
(5) And that means gainsaying the administration’s hesitant Syria policy and throwing credit to the McCains, Kings and Grahams who said that we should have been arming those rebels all along.
Harangue
Definition:
(n.) A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting.
(v. i.) To make an harangue; to declaim.
(v. t.) To address by an harangue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus in your own words you have said why it was utterly inappropriate for you to use the platform of a Pac hearing in this way.” He suggested that many professionals were “in despair at the lack of understanding and cheap haranguing which characterise your manner” after a series of hearings at which Hodge has led fierce interrogations of senior business figures and others.
(2) Both harangued Brian from the outset calling it "a squalid little film" and "tenth rate"; no amount of measured argument on the Pythons part would dissuade the pious double act of their firmly held belief that Life of Brian mocked Christ.
(3) I didn't constantly harangue married friends about how often they had sex, so why should they ask me?
(4) When I first saw the film, I remember being stunned with Allen's sheer audacity in the scene where he remembers his old schoolroom, sitting alongside kids who harangue him in adult language about his sexual precocity: "For God's sake, Alvy, even Freud speaks of a latency period!"
(5) Once I had harangued a friend into joining, each "twine" (message) took about a minute to load.
(6) Two players were then booked for taking their protests too far and Matic was swiftly followed down the tunnel by the assistant first-team coach, Silvino Louro, who was dismissed for haranguing the fourth official, while Mourinho disappeared from the dugout after the break.
(7) On the day, however, he opted not to, and instead harangued his fellow leaders for not spending enough on enough .
(8) Spart harangues the ear with gobbledegook intelligible to the splinterists of the People’s Front of Judea and the Judean People’s Front, but unintelligible to anyone else.
(9) Fiorina then went on to harangue Clinton for accusing the GOP of “trying to disenfranchise poor people and minorities”.
(10) Delivering the prestigious Hugh Cudlipp lecture, Dacre harangued what he dubbed the "subsidariat" of newspapers - in which he included the Times and the Guardian - which do not turn a profit and are "consumed by the kind of political correctness that is patronisingly contemptuous of what it describes as ordinary people".
(11) Occasionally, a visiting international would turn up and harangue his team.
(12) At the launch of her book last week, she was harangued by a group of pro-prostitution campaigners.
(13) Against this drip-feed of bad publicity UBS fielded several court benches worth of firepower: there every day were a varying lineup of solicitors from the City law firm Herbert Smith, the leading fraud barrister Allison Clare and a phalanx of phone-wielding PR enforcers who intermittently harangued reporters during breaks if they disliked what had been filed.
(14) He was particularly active on immigration cases, and would regularly use written parliamentary questions to harangue the relevant secretary of state for not answering his letters promptly.
(15) He intervened several times during proceedings to express his admiration and sympathy for the plight of police officers that day, and harangued Asian witnesses when there was a translation error.
(16) For extra effect, Lyndon Johnson installed a hydraulic “king chair” on board his Air Force One, which enabled him to hover in midair as he harangued the congressmen he invited into his cabin.
(17) Spicer harangued the press corps for allegedly misleading the nation about the audience for Trump’s inauguration , then refused to take questions and left.
(18) He has been known to call phone-in programmes to harangue his critics and lambasted the Mexican press as “clowns disguised as journalists” before their qualification match in the Azteca.
(19) Thus in your own words you have said why it was utterly inappropriate for you to use the platform of a PAC hearing in this way.” He suggested that “many” professionals were “in despair at the lack of understanding and cheap haranguing which characterise your manner” after a series of hearings at which Hodge has led fierce interrogations of senior business figures and others.
(20) At the Middle East Technical University, famous for its leftist spirit, plastic bullets were fired at about a thousand students who wanted to march on the ministry of energy after they had first been harangued by police chiefs.