Claim to be untrue

The answer

DENY

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

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2014. It appears in 4 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
• Reject as false - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• 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
• Disown - used 16 times, most recently in 2015
• Last word of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" - used 16 times, most recently in 2019
• Opposite of admit - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Disclaim. - used 13 times, most recently in 2021
• Refuse to accept - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Disallow - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Refuse to believe - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Declare to be false - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• " ... which nobody can ___" - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Claim to be false - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Forswear - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
• Claim otherwise - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Withhold from - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Not admit - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Refuse to acknowledge - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Don't allow - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Grant's opposite - used 6 times, most recently in 2019

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.

• Property claim - LIEN, used 197 times
• Legal claim - LIEN, used 148 times
• Bank claim - LIEN, used 55 times
• Claim against property - LIEN, used 46 times
• Claim - AVER, used 41 times
• Claim on property - LIEN, used 36 times

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