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词汇 rebuffed
释义 rebuffed
past simple and past participle ofrebuff
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
abjure
abnegate
abnegation
bar
bat something/someone away
decline
demur
disavow
gainsay
miss a chance/opportunityidiom
opt
opt out
pass on
pass something up
punt on something
quit
resistant
sb wouldn't touch something/someone with a bargepole/barge poleidiom
tear

Examples of rebuffed


rebuffed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


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.
The two tenants recalled with satisfaction the gossip that had soon spread about how the would-be visitor had been rebuffed.
Legislators who enact an unconstitutional law, for example, would be rebuffed by a court through the exercise of judicial review.
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.
One might thus expect it to have striven to provide a forum in which the persuasiveness of the chemists'claims could be nurtured and the physicists' opposition rebuffed.
Initially, he was rebuffed everywhere.
Roldan's proposal of a massive general strike was rebuffed.
He was rebuffed by both.
Act had been roundly rebuffed by the lower federal courts.
I believe that none of the ideas expressed in this debate can easily be rebuffed with a simple argument.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
They were rewarded—perhaps rebuffed is a better word—with a further cut of £400,000, £268,000 of which related to education.
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They remember their tentative consent to talk in 1963; again in 1964; again in 1965; and how they were rebuffed.
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We have merely rebuffed these people and driven them into opposition.
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I have no reason to be cynical and think that they would be rebuffed.
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