deny

How to use deny in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for deny.

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I'm not going to deny that there's a lot of crappy art out there.

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Quick take

declare untrue; contradict; "He denied the allegations"; "She denied that she had taken money"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of deny gathered in one view.

verb

declare untrue; contradict; "He denied the allegations"; "She denied that she had taken money"

verb

refuse to accept or believe; "He denied his fatal illness"

verb

refuse to grant, as of a petition or request; "The dean denied the students' request for more physics courses"; "the prisoners were denied the right to exercise for more than 2 hours a day"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for deny.

verb

declare untrue; contradict; "He denied the allegations"; "She denied that she had taken money"

verb

refuse to accept or believe; "He denied his fatal illness"

verb

refuse to grant, as of a petition or request; "The dean denied the students' request for more physics courses"; "the prisoners were denied the right to exercise for more than 2 hours a day"

verb

refuse to let have; "She denies me every pleasure"; "he denies her her weekly allowance"

verb

deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure; "She denied herself wine and spirits"

verb

deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit

verb

refuse to recognize or acknowledge; "Peter denied Jesus"

Example sentences

I'm not going to deny that there's a lot of crappy art out there.

We can try to deny it all we want, but most of the stuff that's there is true.

Even if you are legally following the rules, they can deny you on a whim.

Look at the FDA's attempt to deny[5] people access to their genome without a prescription.

I don't deny Facebook's momentum... it's huge and it's valuable... but is it future proof?

There is a price you pay to the court DNA tester to either fabricate or deny a paternity test.

But you can't deny there is something to front-end frameworks like Bootstrap, and that's what we're excited about.

"But there's no denying that this is by several times the largest amount ever paid for a patent portfolio.

I'm not sure why the author of this article somehow thinks that geeks deny the existence of sexism in geek culture.

It simply did what it does on over 99% of such discretionary petitions: it used its discretion to deny it.

"Whether or not you believe his hypothesis, you cannot deny that he is not rigorously testing it.

I mean, why deny something that's so self-evident?His arguments here are just so disingenuous.

More and more we accept invasive search/oversight from powers who continue to deny the public the same sort of transparency and insight.

Thus, in denying Soverain's petition, the Court did nothing more than say that this particular petition did not present important issues of the kind that warranted its attention.

Skype stepped on the toes of incumbent ISPs' long-distance revenue streams, I wouldn't put it past AT&T to purposefully degrade the quality of Skype calls or even outright deny them from happening.

He explains people fear that "in the event of a complaint, the officer will just deny the allegations and 'circle the wagons' with his or her fellow officers with the expectation they will take care of their own.