as in dismissal
treatment that is deliberately unfriendly
took her rebuff in stride, and still greeted her cousin with a friendly smile the next time they met
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as in to spurn
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Recent Examples of rebuff
Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2025
Weisfield said he’s asked county officials to waive the rule, but was rebuffed.
—Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2025
When his entreaties for a post were rebuffed, Guiteau shot the president.
—Mo Rocca, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2025
Post-match, the defender rebuffed speculation over his future during an exchange with a fan who asked him to stay.
—Roshane Thomas, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
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Verb
Liberal advocacy groups immediately rebuffed Trump's order transgender care for children and teens on Tuesday.
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The Houston Chronicle reported that NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston has informed employees still in their probationary period to prepare for dismissal.—
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Danielle Sassoon, Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, resigned in refusal to carry out the Justice Department’s directive to file the dismissal.—
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Many high-end chocolatiers use fresh fruit or nuts, and spurn preservatives that might compromise flavor or texture.—
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All in all, 12 team-mates have spurned opportunities generated by his passes in the last three months, detailed in the graphic below: Nicolas Jackson, amid an eight-game scoring drought in the Premier League, is unsurprisingly the biggest culprit.—
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Norman Powell was already a high-profile All-Star snub, one who not only has never made it to the game before but is also on the other side of 30.—
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So how should a movie press on after the directors’ branch delivers a snub?—
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Most of the speakers at Tuesday’s meeting scorned a study by Raleigh’s Administrative Office of the Courts on workloads and staffing needs.—
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Is his tendency to scorn sentimentality on sight a put-on or a character flaw?—
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Larger than life, his creation repulses and torments him, and Victor spends the rest of his life both running from it and trying to destroy it.—
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The optical, stop-motion, and puppetry effects alone should make Brain Damage a priority on your watchlist, but Henenlotter’s film excites and repulses on a deeper level.—
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But the Gaza proposal should be seen in the context of a president who believes fervently in his own power of persuasion, who disdains traditional diplomacy, and whose Mideast envoy is a businessman with no experience in that field.—
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For the Post’s editorial board to disdain substantial Chinese production for the rest of the world is for those same editorialists to disdain the division of labor that is at the root of all productive advance.—
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This business is so full of rejections, no matter how good the script is.—
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This moment of isolation is a powerful visual cue that no one truly sees or understands her, amplifying her sense of rejection.—
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Never the favorite of his party's professional advisers, Merz was twice rejected as Merkel's successor as party leader, in 2018 and 2021, before his doggedness won out in 2022.—
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When this innate drive for self-expansion is unfulfilled within the current relationship, individuals may seek it elsewhere—including through infidelity. Cheating, in this case, isn’t necessarily about rejecting a relationship but about reclaiming a lost sense of self.—
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“Rebuff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rebuff. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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