All 3 Uses of
rebuff
in
Main Street
- Their rebuffs made her haughty; her haughtiness irritated them to franker rebuffs; they were working up to a state of painfully righteous war when they were saved by the coming of food.†
Chpt 7 *
- Their rebuffs made her haughty; her haughtiness irritated them to franker rebuffs; they were working up to a state of painfully righteous war when they were saved by the coming of food.†
Chpt 7
- They had not told her that word of Miles's rebuff to Vida had spread through town, a cyclonic fury.†
Chpt 26
Definition:
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(rebuff) to reject another's help, suggestion, or approach -- typically rudely
or in a battle or fight: to drive back