gainsay
C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General verb
To deny or contradict something, or to declare it false.
There is no gainsaying the fact that the reforms have reduced waiting times.
Law verb
To deny or contradict.
There was no gainsaying the documentary record, which flatly contradicted the witness's recollection.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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