| Definitions | | denialist |
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noun
- one who denies an assertion in a controversial political debate
- usage note: This is usually used by those who make the assertion, or by those who implicitly hold the assertion to be true, of others. It is rarely used self-descriptively.
- quotations:
- 2004:"The whole point of the TAC and other Aids activists is that the country can never deal with its Aids problem while the president is an Aids , and while the government keeps putting back the timetable for providing ARVs." — w:The Sunday Times, The Sunday Times, 2004-11-21 (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-1367503,00.html online)
- 2005:"The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has found in favour of the Treatment Action Campaign, which complained to it about an advertisement that was placed by a controversial German Aids and which said, among other things, that anti-retrovirals were poisonous." — w:The Cape Times, The Cape Times 2005-03-11 (http://www.capetimes.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=271&fArticleId=2443028 online)
adjective
- relating to denial in a controversial political debate
Translations: Etymology: Simple combination of denial + -ist
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