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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211) In such circumstances the seller is not entitled to refuse delivery unless the agreed period has already expired.
212) A lot of people refuse to work with Paula. Her manner is just too antagonistic.
213) Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
214) The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. Seneca
215) The main tasks of the non-metropolitan districts were concerned with housing and basic services such as street cleaning and refuse collection.
216) Workers refuse to hire on for less, because cost of living is higher on the border than farther south.
217) Only the really great champions refuse to be sidetracked by any of these minor problems.
218) Currently, federal courts tend to refuse to take such cases until all local and state court appeals are finished.
219) Can a new school board refuse to reappoint a teacher because of his or her association with former board members?
220) A justices' clerk has power to grant or refuse an application for transfer.
221) An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. John F. Kennedy
222) I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything. Jonathan Safran Foer
223) If you refuse to be upset, nothing can make you upset. You refuse to be a failure, nothing can make you a failure. Dr T.P.Chia
224) Tenants who refuse to accept leases are given notice to quit and find themselves on the streets after years of loyal service.
225) If they refuse to join one of the schemes, they lose their benefits.
226) The children can also become antagonistic towards the parents and refuse to get out of bed or to go to the lavatory.
227) So, in protest, they are voting in local ballots to refuse to cover for staff vacancies or for long-term absences.
228) They take everything one step at a time, and refuse to look ahead.
229) Refuse to sweep difficulties under the carpet but sort things out even when it is painful.
230) It is almost a law that if you refuse to be a failure, you cannot be defeated by failure. Dr T.P.Chia
231) Any competent adult has the absolute right to refuse to be examined by any particular individual.
232) Accordingly, I refuse her application to be joined as a party to this action.
233) Although district councils will have more scope to refuse applications, Labour councillors fear some policy controls could shift to central Government.
234) Some, chained to military dog cells, are fed food that animals refuse to eat.
235) Neither dirt nor refuse must be allowed to accumulate, and all floors and stairs shall be cleaned at least once a week.
236) Aylesbury's refuse collectors are out on the job around seven hours a day.
237) That is why women who refuse to choose often find themselves torn in two.
238) You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs.
239) At last, to earn full thanks and to leave nothing undone,(www.Sentencedict.com) it carries away the refuse and leaves all clean.
240) Paul's guide to this mighty sauce is three large refuse sacks of breadcrumbs to 60 pints of milk.
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