Rebuff is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for REBUFF in dictionary:

VERB:
• to reject or refuse curtly
• reject (someone or something) in an abrupt or ungracious manner
• reject or snub
• To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check; to repel or repulse violently, harshly, or uncourteously.
• reject outright and bluntly
• force or drive back
NOUN:
• an abrupt or ungracious rejection of an offer, request, or friendly gesture
• Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.
• Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation.
• a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
• an instance of driving away or warding off
• blunt refusal, snub

Words related to REBUFF

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Words that contain REBUFF

rebuffs15 rebuffed17 rebuffing18

How to use REBUFF in a sentence

• Sweetwater had attempted the sociable but had been met by a decided rebuff.
• Ward made no objection, but the British, who had so recently held the keys of the capital, were indignant to be met by such a rebuff.
• Ptolemy was greatly abashed at this rebuff, but, on consultation with his attendants and followers, it was decided to be too late now to return.
• Nalini was not so much distressed as he by the rebuff.
• If a great man meets with a rebuff which he does not like, he turns on his heel, and this passes for a repartee.
• I remember all the delicate management I had to employ to succeed, after many a rebuff.
• Like all other things, it requires great discretion in sowing leaflets, lest you expose yourself to a rebuff.
• Penrod lingered a few moments, but found even his attention to the conversation ill received, while his attempts to take part in it met outright rebuff.
• The lovers accepted the rebuff as a temporary sorrow only, and Providence, like a playright, removed the stern parent in the next act.
• Solomon Smith received something very like a rebuff.
• But he suffered so severely from this rebuff, that terms of accommodation were agreed on.
• Then his emotion gathered all its forces, all the compelling sensations of disappointment, rebuff, heart-hurt, jealousy, hopelessness, and stormed his soul.
• Maybe the sensitive art might have died under this sharp rebuff.
• It was the first rebuff that the hero had received, and straightway his tact and ingenuity left him.
• The rebuff, however, had stirred again into life the old, rebellious pride which had formerly caused her so much unhappiness.
• He thrust his hand inside her arm, timidly, it is true, ready to snatch it back at the first rebuff.
• But his rush to Petersburg and appeal to the Tsar met with rebuff and refusal.
• When he had thought of it first there seemed nothing difficult about offering to do her a kindness, yet he found himself shrinking from the chance of a rebuff.
• But he passed on, and she had again the sense of rebuff with which he met all her small overtures at that time.
• His whole demeanour is that of a man in whom confidence may be reposed without fear of rebuff, and no man in the House could be more readily accessible to his constituents.
• Jim sensed the rebuff in his tone and went back to the door, around which a knot of men engaged in desultory conjectures while they waited expectantly.
• Thirteen years of business experience had taught her to swallow smilingly the bitter pill of rebuff.
• However he soon gave a rebuff, that laid us all on our backs in a state of the greatest mortification.
• They seemed to rebuff him, to be pointing fingers of accusation at him.
• Arnault has long been a suitor that would take no rebuff.
• He was a good man, had learned to be meek, so that when he was after anything desirable he might be able to take a rebuff, and not mind it.
• Johannesburg was still a red rag to the Government, and I would be sure to meet with a rebuff.
• I thought she might have shown a little feeling in her rebuff, and pondered on her point of view regarding my secret rank.
• He crossed the yard, after the rebuff administered by Nancy, and passed out at the gate, where he stood still to revolve affairs.
• One wonders if the historian sixty years hence will be able to forgive him his rebuff to the first genuine democratic movement in Germany during the war.

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