Denial in a sentence as a noun

They either fail to realize or are in denial about what that means in the 21st century, though.

The whole "if you don't adore the iPad you're in denial" thing says more about the writer than the Microsoft store salesman.

On the other hand, they're in denial about capitalism.

Facebook's still in denial about it's useless network of potatoes.

One is an admirable goal for a whale of a company and the other is a stubborn denial of contrary opinions.

That appears to work like a denial of service attack on my brain - I was sitting here quite hypnotized until a colleague asked me what on earth I was doing.

The mistrust of the government has extended to this industry and we can't simply rest on a simple denial of the accusations.

She was in complete denial about his allegations, and was outright hostile to the rest of the room for "actually believing he was telling the truth".

It's like accusing somebody of being in denial: there's nothing they can say in return that doesn't somehow support the idea that they are in denial.

We have an incredible capacity for denial and self-deception.

But the forceful, repeated, insidious denial of the existence of that privilege is a problem: it reinforces the privilege and allows it to feed on itself.

As I'd mentioned on an earlier submission about W3C's site being inaccessible:A cool thing about Aaron's activism was that it involved building things, circumventing censorship, and spreading information, rather than sabotage and denial-of-service.

>The Surface is partially for Microsofts world of denial: the world in which this store contains no elephants and Microsoft invented the silver store with the glass front and the glowing logo and blue shirts and white lanyards and these table layouts and the modern tablet and its magnetic power cableHuh what?

I have a sort of extremely light and strong functions and modules, adapted to be most easily ftp'd, and with them you may pursue, and at any time combine them with others, secure and indestructible by standard mean time to failure of hardware and denial of service, easy and convenient to compile and catalog.

Denial definitions

noun

the act of refusing to comply (as with a request); "it resulted in a complete denial of his privileges"

noun

the act of asserting that something alleged is not true

See also: disaffirmation

noun

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts

noun

renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others

See also: abnegation self-abnegation self-denial self-renunciation

noun

a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him; "he gave evidence for the defense"

See also: defense defence demurrer