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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
naysayer

1721, from verb naysay (implied from 1530s in naysaying); from nay + say (v.). Nay-say "refusal" is from 1630s.

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naysayer

n. One who consistently denies, criticizes, or doubts; a detractor.

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naysayer

n. someone with an aggressively negative attitude

Usage examples of "naysayer".

The Age of the Fravashi is two millennia dead, the naysayers proclaim.

Rowling, whose multivolume Harry Potter saga, when complete, will make all the grumblers, potshotters, and naysayers look even sillier than they look now.

And the doubters and naysayers who abound in oppressed countries may catch on that just the three richest men in America own more personal assets than the combined assets owned by the entire populations of the sixty poorest countries.

This is a firmly established scientific fact, whatever various naysayers may say.

Arthur had courted laughter in many forms these last few months and he had been met with automatic laughter, polite laughter, nervous, scattered, and derisive laughter, and by the mocking laughter of naysayers who were more amusing than Arthur, so that the restless audience pivoted in their chairs and attended the alternative performance.

Ark Veinsplitter pulled a partially butchered goat carcass in from the snow, while the Naysayer fed dead wood to the fire to make it hot enough for cooking.

The Naysayer had taken dried blackroot and barberry leaves and made a hot tea from them, which he woke Ash every few hours to drink.