Deny
Deny verb - To declare not to be true.
Except
Except verb - To present an opposing opinion or argument.
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Lolicon: Implied to be a motive for Two's creator designing her with a waifish body and to be completely hairless except for her head, although Two does later deny that he used her sexually.
Source: Literature / Tales of MU -
She is unable to give an appropriate response to this, except to try to deny it.
Source: Video Game / Oni - And then there's Tai Lung himself; since the scroll has nothing written on it and had nothing in it to abuse, there was never any reason to keep him from reading it except to arbitrarily deny it to him.
Source: Broken Aesop / Animated Films
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