deny

[dɪˈnaɪ]

Definition:
1. Declare untrue; contradict.
2. Refuse to accept or believe.
3. Refuse to grant, as of a petition or request.
4. Refuse to let have.

Use 'deny' in a sentence:

1. If they decide to invest in color-changing tile that looks like slate at first glance, because it makes them happy, then who are we to deny their choices?
2. The President issued a terse statement denying the charges.
3. Another factor contributing to the tendency to deny the assumption of a fixed human nature was that the concept has so often been abused as a shield behind which the most inhuman acts are committed.
4. They deny conspiring together to smuggle drugs.
5. Looking back on your day, you will find it hard to deny that a horseback Safari is as close as you will ever come to answering the call of the wild.
6. A spokeswoman for the government denied the rumours.
7. After that, who could deny that recycling is an Olympic movement?
8. Even fully paid-up members of the Enlightenment, people who would not for a moment deny humanity's simian ancestry, are often sceptical.
9. There's no denying that quicker action could have saved them.
10. He denied the accusation that he had ignored the problems.
11. They totally and categorically deny the charges.
12. Humble people do not ignore, avoid, or try to deny their limits or deficiencies.
13. Who can deny his stature as the world's greatest cellist?
14. Two federal courts ruled that the military cannot deny prisoners access to lawyers.
15. They have been denied residence in this country.
16. The government denied that there had been any collateral damage during the bombing raid.
17. Perhaps as a consequence, schools would often deny the problem.
18. As she neared the end of her prison sentence, a well-known columnist wrote that she was "paying her dues," and that "there is simply no reason for anyone to attempt to deny her right to start anew."
19. He has always emphatically denied the allegations.
20. When we confronted him, he denied everything.
21. Each one was a girl of fair common sense, and she did not delude herself with any vain conceits, or deny her love.
22. He didn't deny the facts.
23. This man will know me--and will deny me, too, like the rest.
24. He was unable to deny the charges in the face of new evidence.
25. My instinctive reaction was to deny everything.
26. "We deny our children's bids to help until they are 6 or 7 years old," Lancy says, "when many have lost the desire to help and then try to motivate them with payment."
27. They have persistently denied claims of illegal dealing.
28. Some scientists don't deny the existence of aliens, but further evidence is still needed to confirm it.
29. The singer has denied the magazine's claim that she is leaving the band.
30. Who can deny the justice of their cause?
31. Elm City should pay attention to the example of the Oak City mall and deny the application to build a shopping mall in Elm City.
32. The White House was swift to deny the rumours.
33. He denied his father's rumoured love affair.
34. Atheists deny the existence of God.
35. He tried to deny it. Shame on him!
36. She denies possessing the drug with intent to supply.
37. Whether you love or loathe their music, you can't deny their talent.
38. They issued a joint statement denying the charges.
39. He denied all knowledge of the affair.
40. He denied all knowledge of the crime.
41. Government sources denied there had been a deliberate cover-up.
42. Journalists were denied access to the President.
43. They were denied access to the information.
44. Access to the information was denied to them.
45. No one could deny that problems of crime in the inner city exist.
46. The party was denied legal status.
47. She denied that she had turned traitor.
48. Significantly, he did not deny that there might be an election.
49. The spokesman refused either to confirm or deny the reports.
50. Certainly no one in the media would deny the attraction of living behind a deep moat, even if it is filled with sharks.
51. The department denies responsibility for what occurred.
52. People complain that decisions to approve or deny a permit are often arbitrary rather than based on fixed criteria.
53. The executives acknowledge that they try to swing national eating habits to food created in America, but they deny that amounts to economic imperialism.
54. She denied all knowledge of the incident.
55. It can't be denied that we need to devote more resources to this problem.
56. Yesterday, in an interview on German television, the minister denied the reports.