HOW TO PRONOUNCE
rebuffed
/ɹɪˈbʌft/
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What does rebuffed mean?
verb
- simple past and past participle of rebuff
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IPA pronunciation
/ɹɪˈbʌft/
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The rebuffed male resumes his post as a watcher in the sun; and the housewife stows her provisions.
The sex adventurer hates to be rebuffed, and he is not desperately in love, so that he will not risk his vanity.
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Evelyn was tormented by the little spark of life in her which was always trying to work through to other people, and was always being rebuffed.
When it was a question of charity, he was not to be rebuffed even by a refusal, and on such occasions he gave utterance to remarks which induced reflection.
When he asked the Regius Professor of Arabic to teach him, he was rebuffed with the information that it was the duty of a professor to teach a class, not an individual.