demurral

Example Sentences

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The campaign’s demurral captured a criticism that many people in the queer community have made of the first viable out-of-the-closet candidate for the US presidency: he’s just not queer enough.

From The Guardian • Feb. 18, 2020

It’s easy to see that attitude as standard executive demurral.

From The Verge • Jan. 4, 2019

I accepted his demurral, but I needed an explanation.

From Slate • Aug. 21, 2018

“Gideon,” he would say, with the blunt regular demurral of Bartleby, “I do not generally like trying to visualize thousand-dimensional vectors in three-dimensional space.”

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2016

Katherine Goble asked again, undeterred by the initial demurral.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly