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词汇 rebuff
释义 rebuff
verb[ T ]
 formaluk /rɪˈbʌf/ us /rɪˈbʌf/
to refuse to accept a helpful suggestion or offer from someone, often by answering in an unfriendly way: 粗暴回绝;生硬拒绝;断然拒绝
She rebuffed all suggestions that she should resign.她断然拒绝了所有劝她辞职的建议。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Refusing & rejecting
abjuration
abnegate
abnegation
bar
bat something/someone away
decline
disavow
gainsay
oppositional
opt
opt out
pass on
pass something up
punt on something
rebel
refuse
sb wouldn't touch something/someone with a bargepole/barge poleidiom
tear
wash your hands of somethingidiom
would not do something for all the tea in Chinaidiom
rebuff
noun[ C ]
 formaluk /rɪˈbʌf/ us /rɪˈbʌf/
the act of refusing to accept a suggestion or offer from someone, often by answering in an unfriendly way:
Her desperate request for help was met with a rebuff.
The comments drew sharp rebuffs from budget experts in parliament.
Thousands of voters deserted the party to deliver a stinging rebuff to the Government.
He has twice been defeated in leadership contests and is reluctant to risk a further rebuff.
She was stunned by the rebuff.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Refusing & rejecting
abjuration
abnegate
abnegation
bar
bat something/someone away
decline
disavow
gainsay
oppositional
opt
opt out
pass on
pass something up
punt on something
rebel
refuse
sb wouldn't touch something/someone with a bargepole/barge poleidiom
tear
wash your hands of somethingidiom
would not do something for all the tea in Chinaidiom

rebuff | American Dictionary


rebuff
verb[ T ]
us/rɪˈbʌf/
to refuse to accept a suggestion, a request for help, or an offer to help, often in an unfriendly way:
Our request for assistance has been rebuffed.

rebuff


noun[ C ]us/rɪˈbʌf/
Boren’s idea took a sharp rebuff.

Examples of rebuff


rebuff
Indeed, it seems as if the unconscious would mobilize the indexicality of the sign in order to rebuff the idea of reference.
When incidents occurred in small, local markets and grocery stores, successful lootings outnumbered rebuffed attempts by nearly three to one.
Some respondents who renewed contact with children or siblings had positive responses, but others were rebuffed.
They show little distress on her departures and ignore or rebuff her on her returns.
The two tenants recalled with satisfaction the gossip that had soon spread about how the would-be visitor had been rebuffed.
Consequently, they would be obliged either 'to take a rebuff or to use heavy forces, and that he would be opposed to'.
Legislators who enact an unconstitutional law, for example, would be rebuffed by a court through the exercise of judicial review.
This pattern is associated with a history of chronic rebuff, especially when the infant sought physical contact with the caregiver.
But if the future is accidentally necessary, it does not seem that the advisee can either heed or rebuff prior advice given.
It also rebuffed a recommendation that political parties violating the code norms be fined, rather than suspended or dissolved, with prison terms imposed on their leaders.
But these dreams of the creator go awry: the monster surprisingly longs for love and sympathy, and turns to evil destruction when his emotional needs find rebuff in the community.
For the first year, there were no allegations of arbitrary or partisan arrests, investigation of crimes was perceived as thorough and fair, and political influence and bribes were repeatedly rebuffed.
In the first place, the novelist rebuffs the picture of herself before a typewriter; in the second, she articulates her personal involvement in her own business transactions.
Initially, he was rebuffed everywhere.
Roldan's proposal of a massive general strike was rebuffed.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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