demurral
Example Sentences
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Or a polite demurral by the adult in the room?
From Slate • Jan. 20, 2025
His demurral provoked some questions: “How does putting a map in a novel change the way we read the novel? What was it about what he thought a map did that he resisted?”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2022
It’s easy to see that attitude as standard executive demurral.
From The Verge • Jan. 4, 2019
“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
But the magistrate seemed uninterested in both my evidence and the prosecutor’s demurral.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
