Word Finder - deny

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To disallow or reject.

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I wanted to go to the party, but I was denied.

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To assert that something is not true.

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Everyone knows he committed the crime, but he still denies it.

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(ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone.

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My father denied me a good education.

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To take something away from someone; to deprive of.

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To prevent from scoring.

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To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.

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To refuse (to do or accept something).

Carmen couldn't deny that fact.

It was getting harder and harder to deny what she felt toward him.

It couldn't deny its master.

No one could deny that Alex was a devoted husband and father.

I wouldn't deny one's right to fulfill love, but doing so will have serious consequences on an untold number of lives, even those you're saving.

I was about to deny, but she put a finger to my lips.

He would not deny her when she hurt like this and she knew it.

You know, when push comes to shove, he cannot deny you anything.

Well, she certainly couldn't deny that.

There would be no more secrets or restraint, no more attempts to deny him.

She savored the feel of his body against hers, unable to deny what she felt toward him and terrified he'd never feel the same.

I don't want to deny you such a basic need.

Fred just snorted, but Dean noted the old man didn't deny the question.

Jackson had planned to propose to Elisabeth in Coronet Park after the first snowstorm, but if Miriam wanted to take part he would not deny her.

I don't want to deny you motherhood.

When you didn't deny it, I thought it must be true.

He couldn't deny it was his then, could he?

What would be different this time was the fact that he couldn't deny the babies were his - that and the fact that this time she had no uterus to lose.

I guess I can't deny that, but in all these years, why hasn't Uncle Fabrice's name come up in a conversation at least once?

The longer you let both deny you, the harder it becomes to win.

His intent gaze challenged her to deny the statement.

He was so consummate a liar that, when taken in the fact, he could brazenly deny it.

I'll deny it happened and you'll look like a fool!

I can't deny the power of prayer, or the virtue of tenacity.

He paced around the parking lot for a few minutes cursing the first woman to ever deny him, and then stormed back into the bar, grabbed the red head, forced her to look into his eyes and growled, "You will not scream."

Alex didn't actually deny a relationship.

It seems impossible to deny that the tendency of his principles and his arguments is mainly in the line of a metaphysical absolute, as the necessary completion and foundation of all being and knowledge.

Other authorities suggest that it is going much too far to deny the existence of religion altogether, and instance as proof of the divinity of the supra-normal anthropomorphic beings of the Baiame class, the fact that the Yuin and cognate tribes dance around the image of Daramulun (their equivalent of Baiame) and the medicine men " invocate his name."

Yet he cannot deny that "he had some virtues which have caused the memory of some men in all ages to be celebrated"; and admits that "he was not a man of blood," and that he possessed "a wonderful understanding in the natures and humour of men," and "a great spirit, an admirable circumspection and sagacity and a most magnanimous resolution."

Depretis took occasion to deny, in a form scarcely courteous, the probability of the visit.

While we cannot deny, we have no ground for affirming the truth of this theory.

In her style, as in what she writes about, we must concede to the artist what we deny to the autobiographer.

Maybe she thought you would deny it was yours.

The recent chain of events made it impossible for her to deny something serious was going on, and she was somehow involved.

I won't volunteer I heard a siren, but if I'm pressed, I won't deny it either.

Andre didn't deny she was lying to him, which left Gabriel even less certain what to do about his mate.

She had many more questions, but the more she asked, the less she could deny the world around her was real.

Even if this man agreed to bring Kiera back for a visit, Romas and his clan would deny permission.

If she wanted a child, how could he deny her?

Wolff's influence made the usage habitual, 4 though Schleiermacher and Ritschl, like the Socinians earlier, deny the existence of a natural theology..

But even here it seems impossible to deny some influence coming from the Aegean area, and Scythic beasts are very like certain products of Mycenaean and early Ionic art.

The president, however, is empowered to deny admission into the country of foreigners engaged in special religious work not meeting his approval.

But definite evidence, in the shape of letters and references in memoirs, enables us to deny that the Dutch Admiral Verhuell was the father of Louis Napoleon,and there is strong evidence of resemblance in character between King Louis and his third son.

But it is hard to deny the underlying need.

However, the couple continues to deny rumors that the child was conceived with the help of in vitro fertilization.

Additionally, you want to make sure that your blog or website has at least five to seven articles or posts already, or many directories will deny the submission.

Who could deny looking at those smooth bronzed features and delicious chocolate eyes that he was an unusually handsome man?

We need not deny that, late as the Bundahish may be as a whole, the traditions which it contains are often old.

There can be no question, however, that Samuel Adams was one of the first, if not the first, of American political leaders to deny the legislative power of parliament and to desire and advocate separation from the mother country.

From this standpoint it is obviously unhistorical to deny that England had a very important part in the cosmopolitan movement toward doctrinal change.