Reject as false

The answer

DENY

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DENY answer page.

Used 30 times across 22 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 14 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for DENY

Every other clue in this collection answered by DENY, most used first.

• Declare untrue - used 128 times, most recently in 2026
• Turn down - used 119 times, most recently in 2026
• Say it isn't so - used 113 times, most recently in 2026
• Gainsay - used 105 times, most recently in 2025
• Contradict - used 85 times, most recently in 2026
• Refuse - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
• Refuse to admit - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
• Repudiate - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• Say no to - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• Say it ain't so - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Refute - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Disavow - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Declare false - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Withhold - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Reject - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Refuse to grant - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Naysay - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Controvert - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
• Just say no - used 22 times, most recently in 2023

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• False god - BAAL, used 124 times
• False god - IDOL, used 86 times
• False witness - LIAR, used 41 times
• Not false - TRUE, used 29 times
• __ or false test - TRUE, used 26 times

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