Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

non-denial denial

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.68 in modern English

Syllables: non--de-nial -de-nial
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

6

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A statement which appears to deny that something is true, but which, when examined carefully, can be seen to have used diversion, bluster, or ambiguity to avoid making a clear, direct denial.

Example Sentences

"In a classic non-denial denial, Microsoft said that such a takeover might endanger its $200 million MSNBC network partnership."
""If you print that, I'll sue you." A non-denial denial if ever there was one."
"In Washington, there is no higher art form than the non-denial denial, in which politicians try to rebut a storyline without quite denying the specifics."
"[H]e has issued a firm non-denial denial. “I didn’t write it,” he told The New York Times. “But if I had written it, I would be saying I didn’t write it.”"

Inflected Forms

non-denial denials (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

equivocation nondenial

Questions

What does non-denial denial mean?: A statement which appears to deny that something is true, but which, when examined carefully, can be seen to have used diversion, bluster, or ambiguity to avoid making a clear, direct denial.

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