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- noun Plural form of
rebuff . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
rebuff .
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The rebuffs are the latest instances of the US resisting international human rights organizations 'efforts to learn about Bush administration practices.
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Why not add to the first class the pachydermatous indifference to rebuffs which is of such service to the social climber, and, to the second, taste in dress and the habit of not repeating stories?
A Handbook of Ethical Theory George Stuart Fullerton
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Saturday, June 11: Weiner rebuffs calls to resign and announces he plans to seek treatment.
Weiner Calling It Quits Devlin Barrett 2011
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Saturday, June 11: Weiner rebuffs calls to resign and announces he plans to seek treatment.
Congressman Weiner Joins Jobless Ranks Michael Howard Saul 2011
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He resented rebuffs from Washington, and, alone with his aides, cursed his adversaries using the rich vocabulary of an agricultural mechanic.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Henriquez tries to woo Violante and when she rebuffs him he turns to rape and violates her.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Brand New Shakespeare, The Scottish Play and Post-Apocalyptic Dancing! Michael Giltz 2011
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After sundry rebuffs he at last found the needed person (December 1801) in his next-door neighbour, Mrs. Clairmont, a widow with a son and a daughter — "a clever, bustling, second-rate woman, glib of tongue and pen, with a temper undisciplined and uncontrolled; not bad-hearted, but with a complete absence of all the finer sensibilities" (MARSHALL).
Biography in the DNB 2010
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Henriquez tries to woo Violante and when she rebuffs him he turns to rape and violates her.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Brand New Shakespeare, The Scottish Play and Post-Apocalyptic Dancing! Michael Giltz 2011
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Despite rebuffs from both the FBI and British police, Blay persisted for eight years until the Minnesota police took up the case and arrested Melchert-Dinkel on her evidence.
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