rebuff

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(noun.)

ADJ

harsh, sharp, stinging | humiliating

VERB + REBUFF

meet (sth) with, receive, suffer

The young entrepreneur suffered a rebuff when investors rejected his business proposal.

risk

She didn't want to risk a rebuff, so she never told him how she really felt.

expect

She wasn't surprised when the company rebuffed her job application after the interview.

accept | ignore

PREP

(in) a ~ to

In a rebuff to her request, the team decided to reject the proposal without discussion.

~ from

He received a rebuff from the committee when he submitted his proposal for the new project.

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noun

1

A sudden resistance or refusal.

He was surprised by her quick rebuff to his proposal.

And it is symptomatic of the many paradoxes of Lederer's life that of all the people in the room, Brotherhood is the one whom he would most wish to serve, if ever he had the opportunity, even though — or perhaps because — his occasional efforts to ingratiate himself with his adopted hero have met with iron rebuff.

2

Repercussion, or beating back.

the strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud

verb

1

To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.

The plaque (2014) doesn't tell you that Leonard [Woolf] had initially been rebuffed. His intended proposal was refused by Virginia [Woolf to be], who then had a change of heart.

Lawyers for CBS News are rebuffing a legal threat from Donald Trump over the network’s “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris, telling the former president his demands are based on a “faulty premise.”

verb

1

To buff again.

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noun — a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of a

slight

noun — an instance of driving away or warding off

verb — reject outright and bluntly

verb — force or drive back

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He was surprised by her quick rebuff to his proposal.

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And it is symptomatic of the many paradoxes of Lederer's life that of all the people in the room, Brotherhood is the one whom he would most wish to serve, if ever he had the opportunity, even though —

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His administration’s blunt rebuff of a plea by his ally and Michigan’s Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for an increased supply of vaccines to combat a Covid-19 spike represents the kind of tough deci

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The plaque (2014) doesn't tell you that Leonard [Woolf] had initially been rebuffed. His intended proposal was refused by Virginia [Woolf to be], who then had a change of heart.

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Lawyers for CBS News are rebuffing a legal threat from Donald Trump over the network’s “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris, telling the former president his demands are based on a “faulty premis

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“If you have rule of the bureaucrat — if the bureaucracy is in charge, then what meaning does democracy actually have?” Musk said during his 30-minute appearance with Trump, where he rebuffed critics

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