In most cases, it would be difficult, without substantial knowledge, to confute some of the information presented.

The second was written expressly to confute the conclusions of the first.

We were agreed that it could not be in a liquid state, for a reason which science has never been able to confute."

Even a Julian could confute this sort of thing; but are we to rest for ever in negation?

To confute his detractors he now wrote the last of the series, entitled Envy.

John paused, for facts will confute the most stubborn logician.

Am I to study mathematics in order to confute the man who tells me that two and two are five?

His reasoning is so forcible, that no one has even attempted to confute it.

Have no care, citizens; it is a slander I shall easily confute."

What tragic argument might be there vainly striving to confute the gentle dead?

He thought he had found his chance to confute Trenchell.

I had not relied upon time, or the suggestion of his cooler thoughts, to confute his charges.

In 1742, after casting his vote on a highly political issue, he resigned the post to confute claims of political influence.

The authorities dragged Gyergyay through the mire, but could not confute anything.

He took out a packet of old letters and began turning them over as if in search of one that would confute Terence's suspicions.

"I will confute all foolish philosophers forever.

He is at his best when there is a prose argument to examine or confute: for example, in the divorce pamphlets of Milton.

It was Mr. Davidson's task to confute that.

And yet my thoughts confute My intuition; and my will was mute.

Without supporting the rumour, the author demanded that the authorities should come up with a definitive statement which would either confirm or confute those allegations.

It was a bold conjecture, given that there was very little observational evidence available to either confirm or confute the hypothesis.

But before proceeding to conclusively confute this begging question it would be far fitter for you, if you dare!

But if the entire animosity was spewed forth in one great mess, then a sensible man could confute it in an orderly way.

He enumerated the objections which had been made, and the industry with which he had endeavoured to confute them.

Looks, and reads, like the intellectually challenged are begging for a Stalinesque hard man to kill the bogeymen they fear but cannot confute.