Crossword clues for denied
denied
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deny \De*ny"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Denied; p. pr. & vb. n. Denying.] [OE. denien, denaien, OF. denier, deneer, F. d['e]nier, fr. L. denegare; de- + negare to say no, deny. See Negation.]
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To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.
Note: We deny what another says, or we deny the truth of an assertion, the force of it, or the assertion itself.
To refuse (to do something or to accept something); to reject; to decline; to renounce. [Obs.] ``If you deny to dance.''
--Shak.-
To refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to; as, to deny a request.
Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?
--Pope.To some men, it is more agreeable to deny a vicious inclination, than to gratify it.
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To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, and the like; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
The falsehood of denying his opinion.
--Bancroft.Thou thrice denied, yet thrice beloved.
--Keble.To deny one's self, to decline the gratification of appetites or desires; to practice self-denial.
Let him deny himself, and take up his cross.
--Matt. xvi. 24.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-pastdeny)
WordNet
See deny
v. declare untrue; contradict; "He denied the allegations"; "She denied that she had taken money" [ant: admit]
refuse to accept or believe; "He denied his fatal illness"
refuse to grant, as of a petition or request; "The dean denied the students' request for more physics courses"; "the prisoners were denied the right to exercise for more than 2 hours a day"
refuse to let have; "She denies me every pleasure"; "he denies her her weekly allowance" [syn: refuse] [ant: allow]
deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure; "She denied herself wine and spirits" [syn: abnegate]
deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit [syn: traverse]
refuse to recognize or acknowledge; "Peter denied Jesus"
[also: denied]
Wikipedia
"Denied" is a song by the San Diego-based rock band Unwritten Law, produced by Greg Graffin and released as the second single from the band's 1996 album Oz Factor.
Usage examples of "denied".
But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Put in solitary confinement for twenty-three hours a day, denied use of the library and any mail service.
Thirty years ago, before reaching a decision to kill, people denied many things, to the point of denying themselves by suicide.
This love finding no outlet and God being denied, it is then decided to lavish it on human beings as a generous act of complicity.
God is denied in the name of justice, but can the idea of justice be understood without the idea of God?
The essential thing is that every obstacle should be denied and that the irrational should be triumphant.
Charles I clung so tenaciously to the principle of divine right that he considered it unnecessary to be just and loyal to those who denied it.
He claimed to have created a Russian Jacobinism and yet only borrowed from the Jacobins their technique of action, since he, too, denied every principle and every virtue.
From the moment that the divinity of Christ is denied, or that, thanks to the efforts of German ideology, He only symbolizes the man-god, the concept of mediation disappears and a Judaic world reappears.
The life of the body, reduced to its essentials, paradoxically produces an abstract and gratuitous universe, continuously denied, in its turn, by reality.
But one makes its promise in the name of formal principles that it is quite incapable of incarnating and that are denied by the methods it employs.
Cathan would carry on the MacRorie name in this generation, leaving Joram free to pursue the religious vocation that had been denied Camber.
Illinois Apportionment law, which created districts now having glaringly unequal populations, was attacked as unconstitutional on the ground that it denied to voters in the more populous districts the full right to vote and to the equal protection of the laws.