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rebuff
noun as in turning away; ignoring
verb as in turn away; give the cold shoulder
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Example Sentences
There is, however, a simple step you could take that would both demonstrate your disapproval and rebuff a company that really makes this country worse.
When, a few hours into a training swim, my right shoulder muscle would insist that it couldn’t do the catch, pull, release of one more stroke, I would rebuff its claim, replying that there was no place on earth that I would rather be.
“If anyone dared rebuff his call to pay bribes, he punished them and their city projects, threatening developers with indefinitely delayed projects and financial peril,” according to the U.S.
And yet the high court’s fatal rebuff of Williams on Tuesday suggests that a majority of justices will conclude that this world would be a better place if Glossip, too, is executed before we can untangle what went wrong in his deeply flawed prosecution.
Anyway, it’s questionable whether the Senate could legally rebuff the governor’s call for a special session.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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