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refuse
noun as in garbage
verb as in deny; say no
Strong matches
demur, desist, disaccord, disallow, disapprove, dissent, dodge, evade, nix, regret, repel, reprobate, repudiate, shun, spurn
Weak matches
beg off, brush off, dispense with, give thumbs down to, hold back, hold off, hold out, make excuses, not budge, not budget, not buy, not care to, pass up, refuse to receive, send off, send regrets, set aside, turn away, turn deaf ear to, turn from, turn one's back on
Example Sentences
Still, Dench remains characteristically grounded, crediting her support network and refusing to frame her condition as a reason to retreat entirely from public life.
The platform says it uses Meta's servers to store encrypted messages while they are being delivered but deletes them once this is done, and has refused to hand them over to governments.
The Class of 92, though, stubbornly refuse to fade.
Two excommunicated Spanish nuns who have joined a sect were held for allegedly selling cultural assets belonging to the Catholic Church from a convent they refuse to leave, a court said on Friday.
Chair Ms Davies said Richards had refused to be interviewed for the school's independent internal investigation in 2021.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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