If any such idea found lodgment it should be dismissed forthwith as contrary to——
It is without a vestige of truth in it
It will be met by a flat refusal
It is too much of an extravagance to assert that——
We are not justified in making unqualified assertions
It is deliberately false
An absurd proposition hardly worth contradiction
No more false charge was ever brought
The thing was absurd and incredible on the face of it
Relegated to the limbo of——