Synonym: decline, garbage, junk, litter, rebuff, reject, rubbish, rubble, trash, waste. Antonym: accept. Similar words: defuse, refuge, refute, refund, refugee, infuse, confuse, confused. Meaning: [rɪ'fjuːz] n. food that is discarded (as from a kitchen). v. 1. show unwillingness towards 2. refuse to accept 3. elude, especially in a baffling way 4. refuse to let have 5. resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ 6. refuse entrance or membership.
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181) He says it's perverse to refuse applicants with beards.
182) Or was he going to give them his blessing and yet refuse to give custody of the child to Maria Luisa?
183) He should never have agreed to take part in this charade, should have adhered to his first decision to refuse.
184) Federation leaders were annoyed by the redundant demands, but could rarely refuse.
185) There is a simple, inexpensive solution for those who refuse to play ball with the system.
186) But you daren't take the risk of trying it on in case I was calling your bluff and would refuse you.
187) Pray that the missionary may refuse to hear any accusations from Satan against his fellow workers and believers.
188) But, though legal and advised, many women refuse to have abortions because it would be going against their beliefs.
189) If you refuse, you will be treated as though you had failed the test, and you will face a lifetime ban.
190) When parents refuse, there is either an almighty bust-up or a continuing groundswell of discontent that lasts for weeks.
191) Where an applicant is convicted, the licensing board may refuse to consider the application with which the conviction was concerned.
192) They can not be shot or netted since they refuse to budge and will be sitting tight underground.
193) Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within. Sigmund Freud
194) The works Mr Torode would refuse to censor differ in status.
195) The advocacy system gives the child the right to voluntarily admit himself or refuse admission.
196) I could refuse to buy her a car, but I could not insist that she feel some affection for me.
197) So deeply ingrained is our instinct to search for a pattern that we refuse to accept any input as genuinely random.
198) Most cats will refuse to join in such celebrations, but those that do will quickly suffer for it.
199) It can also threaten to cancel federal contracts with any firms that refuse to change.
200) But no party is willing to refuse to take advantage of these loopholes when the other party is doing it.
201) Because of its sometimes precarious economic position[sentencedict.com], no rank would refuse to accept the king's wage.
202) If they refuse, she has a stronger case against them.
203) The prison authorities refuse to accede to their demands and have issued 176 dismissal notices.
204) However, there may be a small minority of residents who refuse to be kept clean.
205) I can never see why people refuse to give autographs, for example - it puts such a dampener on things.
206) However, in all the circumstances, I would have felt bound to refuse relief.
207) Health union negotiators said they would refuse to accept the award for Britain's 600,000 nurses, midwives and health visitors.sentencedict.com
208) Under the terms of the code, lenders refuse to deal with brokers who have neglected to sign up.
209) But his request had been so casual that to refuse would have seemed as if she was making an issue.
210) Refuse to accept the fact that the gambolling lamb in the field is their future Sunday lunch.
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