deniable

[Eng. deny; -able.] Capable of being denied; that may or can be denied or contradicted. "The negative authority is also deniable by reason." Browne: Vulgar Errors . dě-ni-al, s . [Eng. deny; -al.] 1. The act of denying, contradicting, or refusing. "Word of denial in thy labras here." Shakesp.: Merry Wives, i. 1. 2. A negation; a contradiction of the truth of any statement; or the contrary to affirmation . "An entire denial of the miracles."-Trench. 3. A denying or refusing to confe or own to; the contrary to confe ion. "Denial would but make the fault fouler."- Sidney . 4. An abjuration; a rejection or refusing to acknowledge; a disowning. " South. we act our confe ions or denials of Him."5. Loosely: A failure to obtain. "Such a total denial of succe has certainly been very rare in the present century."-London Times: Transit of Venus. 6. A restraint of one's appetites or desires; self denial. *dě-ni-ançe, s. [Eng. deny ; -ance.] Denial. "Either for the affirmance or deniance of the same."Hall: Edward IV . , an. 22. dě-nied', *de-nayed, *de-nyed, pa. par. or a. [DENY.] dě-ni-er (1), s. [Eng. deny; -er.] 1. One who denies, contradicts, or maintains the negative of a proposition. "And the denier by the word Virtue means only courage."- Watts . 2. One who disowns, abjures, or refuses to acknowledge. "Christ looked his denier into repentance."- South . 3. One who refuses to grant or concede anything. "It may be I am esteemed by my denier sufficient of myself to discharge my duty to God as a priest, not to men as a prince." -King Charles. děn-I-er (2), 8. [Fr., from Lat. denarius (q.v.).] A small French coin the twelfth part of a cent of American money. "I'll not pay a denier ."- Shakesp .: Henry IV ., iii. 3. děn'-I-grāte, v. t. [Lat. denigratum , sup. of denigro to blacken: de (intens.), and nigro =to make black; niger black.] "Hartshorn and other white bodies will be denigrated by heat."-Boyle: Works , i. 711.