issue
denial
He has issued an angry denial of any wrongdoing.
A spokesman issued a categorical denial that the football club had been put up for sale.
They are just issuing flat denials without offering any evidence.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Denying & contradicting
abnegate
abnegation
breath
burst someone's bubbleidiom
contradictorily
counter-argue
debunk
deny
disabuse
disagree
dispute
I'm a Dutchmanidiom
myth-buster
myth-busting
non-acceptance
non-recognition
nonsense
recant
refute
speak for yourselfidiom