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nay-sayer

n. (alternative form of naysayer English)

Usage examples of "nay-sayer".

Black and white, they presented a solid chessboard of the seemingly empty cosmos, black for the nay-sayers, white for the yea-sayers, maintained by a Hand in delicate balance and subject as the fowls of the air and the fish of the sea to exploitation by man.

The day will come, and very soon, when you nay-sayers and leftover leftists are going to become the target of the wrath of America.

And these-- for the moment, at least-- are the young lotus-eaters, the barefoot mystics and hairy freaks of the Haight-Ashbury -- all those primitive Christians, peaceful nay-sayers and half-deluded "flower children" who refuse to participate in a society which looks to them like a mean, calculated and soul-destroying hoax.

As a salve to the technological nay-sayers, there were both system overrides that commanders could invoke and real human beings in the chain.