Thesaurus / rejection
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
This comes after very public complaints from Microsoft regarding xCloud’s rejection from the App Store, which Apple denied because its App Store rules fundamentally did not allow game-streaming platforms on it.
APPLE LAYS OUT ITS MESSY VISION FOR HOW XCLOUD AND STADIA WILL WORK WITH ITS APP STORE RULESLUCAS MATNEYSEPTEMBER 11, 2020TECHCRUNCH
The error was compounded by the botched early rollout of testing kits and rejection of tests manufactured in other countries.
TIMES OF STRIFE CAN LEAD TO MEDICAL INNOVATION—WHEN GOVERNMENTS ARE WILLINGBY JEFFREY CLEMENS/THE CONVERSATIONSEPTEMBER 9, 2020POPULAR SCIENCE
It must’ve been a combo of getting used to rejection but then also not taking it as rejection.
AFTER PLAYING SO MANY ROLES, WHO IS THE REAL TATIANA MASLANY?EROMO EGBEJULESEPTEMBER 4, 2020OZY
This kind of affect-laden, motivated thinking explains a wide range of examples of an extreme, evidence-resistant rejection of historical fact and scientific consensus.
Since its last rejection, that request has gotten even harder for a project that’s been kicking around for 15 years.
MORNING REPORT: LILAC HILLS IS BACK (AGAIN)VOICE OF SAN DIEGOJUNE 24, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
John Hughson took his rejection rather sullenly, and Mercedes was more than ever alone in the old house.
PIRATE GOLDFREDERIC JESUP STIMSON
Rejection has its pleasures, the more secret the more unmeasured.
THE RHYTHM OF LIFEALICE MEYNELL
"I did," she answered him, and flushed as she remembered her yesterday's rejection.
SCARAMOUCHERAFAEL SABATINI
In the First Part we constantly see them together; in the Second (it is a remarkable fact) only once before the rejection.
OXFORD LECTURES ON POETRYANDREW CECIL BRADLEY
Rejection of form of approaching souls proves formlessness of the Supreme, vi.
PLOTINOS: COMPLETE WORKS, V. 4PLOTINOS (PLOTINUS)
WORDS RELATED TO REJECTION
- cavil
- censure
- challenge
- counter-argument
- criticism
- declination
- demur
- demurral
- demurring
- difficulty
- disapprobation
- disapproval
- discontent
- disesteem
- disinclination
- dislike
- displeasure
- dissatisfaction
- doubt
- exception
- expostulation
- grievance
- gripe
- hesitation
- kick
- niggle
- odium
- opposition
- protest
- question
- rejection
- reluctance
- remonstrance
- remonstration
- repugnancy
- revilement
- scruple
- shrinking
- squawk
- stink
- unwillingness
- abnegation
- ban
- choice
- cold shoulder
- declension
- declination
- defiance
- disallowance
- disapproval
- disavowal
- disclaimer
- disfavor
- dissent
- enjoinment
- exclusion
- forbidding
- interdiction
- knockback
- negation
- nix
- no
- nonacceptance
- noncompliance
- nonconsent
- option
- pass
- prohibition
- proscription
- rebuff
- refutation
- regrets
- rejection
- renouncement
- renunciation
- repudiation
- repulse
- repulsion
- reversal
- thumbs down
- turndown
- veto
- withholding
- writ
- cavil
- censure
- challenge
- counter-argument
- criticism
- declination
- demur
- demurral
- demurring
- difficulty
- disapprobation
- disapproval
- discontent
- disesteem
- disinclination
- dislike
- displeasure
- dissatisfaction
- doubt
- exception
- expostulation
- grievance
- gripe
- hesitation
- kick
- niggle
- odium
- opposition
- protest
- protestation
- question
- rejection
- reluctance
- remonstrance
- repugnancy
- revilement
- scruple
- shrinking
- squawk
- stink
- unwillingness
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