Say nay

Usage examples of deny.

It denied, in the second place, that there is any principle of law, common or otherwise, which pervades the Union except such as are embodied in the Constitution and the acts of Congress.

Webster, an admitted pedophile, had adamantly denied ever having seen either of the boys, and all throughout the trial, had sworn his innocence, had sworn that someone else was responsible for their disappearance.

This Adams had not denied, but praised his son-in-law as a brave and able soldier who had more than proven himself in the Revolution.

Possibly, as John Quincy surmised, it was because Adams had denied him his chance for military glory, humiliated him at Trenton, and made his army superfluous.

Arab menaces Medina, The Aethiop has intrenched himself in Sennaar, And keeps the Egyptian rebel well employed, Who denies homage, claims investiture As price of tardy aid.

As much as she wanted to deny it, the stories she had read, the legends of an ancient civilization, the words written in the journal Aisling had left for her, all whispered to a truth hidden deep within her.

The published records of the Inquisition refer incessantly to preachers of this kind who denied private property, asserted that no rich man could get to heaven, and attacked the practice of almsgiving as something utterly immoral.

SFWA, Phil thinks, the Science Fiction Writers of America, Emmet is so right about them, the Swine Fucking Whores of Amerika, they may deny that they have anything to do with the pirate edition, but their bleatings about censorship and their insidious promotion of this blatant violation of my copyright proves they want to drag me down to their level.

The Anabaptists denied that they were communists, but the leaders were bound over to keep the peace, some were fined and others banished.

This would deny the invaders easy access to the Anchors and their master computers and force them to come out overland.

Here it meant the face of Inti, shown as he came in majesty in the Andean dawn to wipe away the dark, the cold, to blind the stars and deny with his own immortality the fact of death.

Among antivivisectionists there are those who belive that any human being who could thus subject animals to torment would not find it impossible to deny the fact.

It is open, of course, to an antivivisectionist to deny the right of science to profit by the exploitation of animals, but this is not the position of a large number who seek only to prevent the cruelty which has often accompanied it.

But there were definite advantages of Roman rule, which no Antiochene denied, although their comic actors and the slaves who sang at private entertainments mocked the Romans and invented accusations of injustice and extortion that were even more outrageous than the truth.

As a result of this massive three-pronged amphibious operation, North Africa west of Tunisia was denied to the Axis, valuable airdromes, military, naval and antisubmarine bases were secured, and foundations laid for driving the Germans out of North Africa.