Old-fashioned denial
Else clues• ___ beauty, so to speak, nor good talk...: Kipling
• The most beautiful girl in the world/___ Garbo (Rodgers/Hart line)
• Contracted denial
• Cousin of 't aint
• Denier's reply
• Naysayer's contraction
• Negative reply
• Old-fashioned contraction
• Poetic word of refutation
• Quaint denial
• Snooty denial
• Snooty retort